Or a few bags of stuff from Home Depot.
I think he did make a video on getting iron out of iron-eating bacteria…
Of course, the small bead of iron he got out of it is useless, but the concept is sound.
I can’t help but think that setting up all these camera angles must be very psychically jarring. Nothing interrupts a good ol primitive moment like adjusting a tripod and futzing with digital gizmos. Also, that technological innovation is a group process. No one person invented, for example, the grain mill on their own, lots of people were inventing little parts of it. And once invented, the invention spreads And that’s something that’s missing from these video where he’s (presumably) inventing these things all on his own. So it’s more representative of a Robinson Crusoe type of isolation than what could be called “primitive technology” at any stage.
Those nitpicks aside, I still love these videos.
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Help me here. What is it, exactly, that you think he does not need that he is now getting from BB and others who are linking to videos he has made and posted on the internet himself? Off of what, precisely, is BB supposed to back?
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The videos aren’t really trying to depict any sort of “progession” forwards out of the stone age. That’s just the perception that’s been pasted onto it by overzealous viewers
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In the video title is the word “technology”, so I’m commenting on it as such. I think a better word would probably be “ingenuity”, or maybe “recreating modern technology with primitive materials”, but I suppose that’s a mouthful.
he’s not using his ingenuity to recreate primitive technology (I assume you made a typo with ‘modern’), he’s up front about doing a lot of research beforehand. he’s just trying to do everything by hand, to use the only practices and resources that people back then would have had access to (even if ‘back then’ might be a broad description of various times in different places, not any specific historical moment).
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He’s not trying to recreate modern technology, though, despite what comments about him progressing to the iron age would have you believe. He’s trying to recreate the inventions of primitive society, or rather, of various primitive societies. The water hammer and iron smelting are probably the most “advanced” things he’s done, but they’re still solidly pre-bronze age. Most of his videos are like “building a mud house” or “starting a fire” or “making plant fiber rope”
Interesting, I didn’t realize this was researched. And my describing the tech here as “modern” wasn’t a typo, I was referring to the fact that he’s bringing modern technology with him. In other words, technology isn’t just a matter of materials. The classic example is if someone somehow goes through a time machine to the stone age and builds (for example) a saw mill, that would be modern technology even if it was built from primitive materials.
Aha, I didn’t realize he’s including bronze age in “primitive”, I was thinking “primitive” meant stone age. In that case harnessing water power is certainly fair game. I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call bronze age “primitive” though, but then again I guess my Palm Pilot is “primitive” too so who knows.
I’d also be interested in how he made the camera that took the video of the water-powered hammer.
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He’s made a small amount of some kind of iron, but I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s in the bronze age even, let alone the iron age. By “primitive” I’m pretty sure he means neolithic/stone age. By “no specific moment” I meant that maybe some techniques he’s using predate some others, maybe one or two are even outside of the neolithic period, I’m not sure. But broadly speaking he definitely seems to be based in the neolithic.
Sure, but what thing has he built that you would characterize as an example of modern technology? I’m not really seeing it. The water hammer and iron smelting are relatively advanced among his projects, and neither of those is really at a useful stage. Next up is maybe the fired pottery roof tiles.
Why does it feel like this animation comes from a Detarou game?
I was joking about him progressing to the iron age. I doubt that he’s really trying to step up a tech tree to some goal.
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Sure, but what thing has he built that you would characterize as an example of modern technology?
Using water as a motive force.
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Perhaps he should build a ship, and use it to trade with distant lands.
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This guy was badly needed in the Bahamas late last week.
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