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Hello! My name is Cristiane Amarante,
an archaeologist, and our subject for today's video is:
IH! It's chipped!
You must have been curious to know why this
video has this name. In fact,
sometimes, in archeological sites,
the pieces are not found whole;
they are found in parts. They are
part of a process.
How do we, archaeologists, find out
that piece was in the middle of a process?
Well, I'm not going to tell you that, otherwise I'll spoil
the video's surprise. Archaeologist João
Carlos Moreno is performing an experimental
archeology action and we discovered
about the stones that...
surprise, you will see.
My idea is to make a spearhead
with this flint material.
It's already... the work is already started, there was a splinter,
several other chips were already removed,
and it was getting a shape.
And to continue the work on it I'll use
this little pebble, which is a small pebble, but it's
very sandy,
which helps me to scorch the edges
that I'm going to use,
where I'm going to strike and where I'll press to get a splinter.
And to flake I'm going to use that striker
made of elk horn.
Here I have prepared the place where I want to hit,
I made a nice angle, so now I want to try
to hit here with the elk horn
to try to remove a splinter
that comes at least until half of the piece.
This was not quite what I wanted, because it came out very thick
and it reflected. Reflected is what we call when it gets that step.
It can be a problem if you want to try to take another splinter
that is longer than that, otherwise it will stop here.
But I can use the strategy to come
from the other side and take another splinter that gets here,
which will reduce the thickness much more.
The splinter broke all here now, but
did exactly what I had said.
It came up to that piece that was here,
cut it reflected and went there.
You can see here, there are several waves;
as if they were waves of water, but frozen in the stone.
These waves are created every time I
strike the piece.
And here we can see what the problem is, why this break happened:
there was this step here.
That is, if it broke here,
it means that the flake that left here took that thickness.
Generally, the splinter, when it leaves,
where the energy comes, passes
and ends up going up;
in which case it made a downward turn.
And when it turned that down,
you can even see the wave bending down here.
You can see the wave here.
Which means that, in fact, it was already chipped;
it just finished expanding now that I
hit that spot.
Did you understand now what happens?
Sometimes a piece was being made, and
in the middle of the process it splintered. It's not
the archaeologist's fault, it's not the fault of the one who was doing
it in the past. But this also brings important information
about these pieces that are found in half
or broken in archaeological sites. By the way,
this is a very important information, because people,
when they go to the museums, see the whole pieces,
and they have the idea that most of what is in the
archaeological site is the whole piece. And often it's not;
it's a piece that went wrong, or many splinters
from a place where a piece was produced that was
carried to another place. You find the splinter,
not the piece, in that place, which we call the workshop
site. I hope you enjoyed
this video. If you liked it, give your "like",
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see you next time!
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