“On a late September day in Montana, a group of my colleagues and I here at MeatEater collaborated with a team of archeologists to butcher a bison using an Ice Age tool kit made of stone. The goal was to create a collection of tools and bones that might help unravel the mystery of how our fellow hunters survived thousands of years ago. Here’s what happened.” Steven Rinella
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"Meat per minute" 😆
Ryan Gill did this on his Hunt Primitive YouTube channel. A while ago. Seems a little weird to do this without him.
Very cool and interesting video to watch.
Such a cool video!
As an archaeologist and knowing my people, the after party of grilling up some meat and drinking heavily with these guys would have been so much fun 🙂
I appreciate this content though, love meat eater!
I'd like to note that the locations where they broke the points of their tools are places where it is absolutely commonplace to find broken tools, such as in the ribs, and the method of how it happened (leverage and tension) makes alot of sense when you think about it. Archaeological studies like this absolutely do have a role in the field and i would love to see more studies like this in the future =)
That was awesome very educational!
ayyy kent state lets go
First off.. thank you. Having been an avid avocational archaeology person most of my life, this is absolutely fascinating. For cleaning the bones, would dermestid beetles be useful?
Nice vid meat eater crew as a Native American I’m glad to see a vid like this I’m a Pueblo native from New Mexico we still use stone tools but we use more of the obsidian stone it’s more glass like but it’s still strong and extremely sharp we nap them the same way with antler but use the handle made with deer and elk antler depending how big the blade point is and again I loved the vid boys thank you meat eater crew keep up the good work
Cal rizzin up the professor lol she kinda bad too
Interdisciplinary studies are vital to making better sense of historical artifacts. Next take these tools to a bowyer, a fletcher, a carpenter, and a tanner and you’ll have an even better understanding of how they were used.
All the laughs and smiles were so great to see. Love seeing these folks have a truly great time doing something they are so passionate about. Probably one of my favorite videos ever produced by MeatEater. Im honestly jealous. Keep up the great work!
This was fascinating
I'd love to see them re-visit this, using experience gained and also using the flakes and points in conjunction to find out which parts are best for what (like the point-knives fo the initial cuts to start the skinning, but the flakes for the skinning itself, the points to get in close to the bone or in awkward places where they left more meat on the bone with the flake, etc.
Imagine if you had Native people on instead of white folks remaking our tools. Lol what a fake, wasted effort. Just ask us Steve. Wopila.
bunch of old man trying hard to stay away from their wifes …. hhahahha🤣😂
Cooperation and organization were the ancients best tools.
Flint/chert knife blades have no torque strength. The blades cannot be used in a prying motion. Ancient people knew this through experience.
With stuff like this it still amazes and confuses me that Meateater's content here doesn't have 5x the views the videos normally get.
I don't believe primitives would have tried to cut through ribs with a flint knife
What stone are they using?
Fascinating!!
The Meateater dream team, what a great episode. The litte extra at the end is brilliant
This is amazing. Man if I had known there was this field of study when I was in school, I would've been and actual good student! Also, first time handling a tool, first time addressing a carcass with these tools, I have to imagine the ghosts of ancient man might be almost impressed to see but also a bit amused. Great job and what a great video!