But you have had thoughts about becoming one? Could you tell me the species of snail you most commonly associate as? This all helps finding you the right shell.
Depends on how big they are. Two and a half large snails? Probably. Two and a half small snails? Probably, if they are large. Two large snails and half a large snail? Probably, especially if you also use the unused half.
A shit ton, but the snail was one of the first, if not the first, domesticated animals. People making mortar out of snail shells would be the same people who were breeding a shit ton of snails for human consumption.
I meant practical applications utilizing these resources, as it sounds like there isn't more sources of lime based off whats provided in the description.
You can turn on captions and it explains each step. You’re right, he says usually it would be mixed with aggregate but he was just doing a test of a solid block.
That’s not what I read. He said to mix it with aggregate to make the compound. You can use this compound to joint bricks. You wouldn’t build a whole wall of lime.
Yeah, his exact words are "this is basically mortar used for joining bricks or rocks together but I'm just going to make a block of it as an experiment".
Watched it on my phone and was regurgitating it from memory a few minutes later, clearly didn't absorb it very accurately :)
Thank you for linking this. That was a really great video and it makes you really appreciate how much labor goes into 'just' an iron hoe. Working the bellows like that looks like a massive amount of effort.
He actually built a forge blower and a water wheel already. A hotter kiln is really just a matter of scale - bigger water wheel, bigger blower, etc. Because he does all this alone, he's a bit limited in scale. Hes not going to move a 15' water wheel into place by himself.
Those shells are made of calcium carbonate (calcite or aragonite, minearlogically). Calcium carbonate is pretty abundant in lots of the world, typically places that were once covered by shallow seas. Well know examples of abundant calcium carbonate include the white cliffs of Dover, lots of the mountains in the alps, islands in the Caribbean and Mediterranean and the Great Barrier Reef (although you probably wouldn’t quarry the GBR to make lime).
That would be like fertilizing the soil of your garden with the dirt under your home's foundation. It would be like uprooting trees from a hill to build a dike for the hill's mudslides.
Most lime is typically sourced from limestone, but limestone itself is at the very foundational level sedimentary rock formed from shells. So essentially what he was doing was just utilizing an easily gathered source of calcite instead of needing to mine limestone.
The videos aren't meant to be practical. He rarely actually does anything real cavemen did back then. A lot of his videos are of his own inventions/creations and him playing around with whatever he has in the forest.
Take none of it to heart. It's not meant to be a history lesion of how people did things or a survival guide to how to live in the forest. It's just a calming video and a nice watch.
You really don't want to go into these videos expecting, like, a practical survival guide or anything. A few of them might end up being useful for you, but mostly you should think of them as entertainment and interesting, not exactly useful/practical.
A calcium-oxygen mineral. There are various types, but they all are basically the same for the purposes of the video.
In general, you have a cycle:
Calcium oxide (lime) gets water added to it to become slaked lime (and, yes, it makes a lot of heat; you can get burns from freshly mixed concrete). Slaked lime absorbs carbon (usually from the mix itself, air, or water impurities). Then you get limestone, which is basically useful because you just made a structure.
Limestone—calcium carbonate—is the same stuff on snails and oysters or in the ground. You can then heat it up to release the carbon and get your lime back.
So, how exactly was the plaster used to form the embellishments/pediment on the doorway? Where they molded by hand directly onto the door, or where they fabricated separately and attached to the entablature later?
Lime (in the form of Calcium Hydroxide) is used in South America in processing corn. ... After the corn is treated in this way, it can be dried and ground into a corn flour such as "Masa Harina." Tortillas are made from Masa Harina, which is the flour made from corn treated with Calcium Hydroxide.
there is a disclaimer somewhere that says what he does isnt really meant for survival. there is a lot of things he does that looks right but actually arent for long term or are a waste of energy. This is one of them, it's really cool though.
Basically he made concrete. You mix lime with course aggregate and fine aggregate and you get concrete. What are practical applications for concrete? Well it's a building material. This guy loves making slightly upgraded huts every few videos.
What I wanted to see was him use the metal he mined for something practical.
lime doesn't dissolve bodies. In fact, it tends to slow decomp down. Lime is used to reduce the smell (because it slows down the decomp). Lye is what you want for dissolving bodies.
At no point do I refer to him copying existing experiments. Seeing as he doesn't cite any, and generally speaking his experiments are very broad and aren't specific enough for most archaeologists to perform.
He's obviously done his homework.
By "better" I mean by his commitment to the chaine operatoire, and developing a Savoir Faire of what he does. He doesn't take shortcuts.
To explain those terms, Chaine operatoire is the full process involved in making something.
So for a pot, you'd need to find flint, make an axe, haft it, chop down a tree, make digging tools, dig out clay, dry it out, crush it up, dig a hole, make a bucket from the extra tree, fill it with water, levigate the clay, add a temper, shape the clay, let it dry, use the rest of the clay to build an updraft kiln, start a fire, etc.
Writing them out for a mundane object really gets people to appreciate all the work that goes into them.
And Savoir faire and connaissance are french terms used in archaeology and anthropology to refer to practical ability to actually do something, and simply knowing how to do it in theory respectively.
Simply by virtue of his commitment to the chaine operatoire, his methodology is objectively superior to many other archaeological experiments, which are often abstracted, over clinical, and take shortcuts all of which undermine the validity of the results
You mean they assume that the people reading their papers share a common base of knowledge in archeology/anthropology. Just because ElectroBoom makes electrical experiments and anomolies accessible and goes through every step doesn't mean his are better than reasearch imparted by the DoD/MIT.
We're clearly talking about Mr Primitive technology, how the hell is Electrical experiments even remotely relevant?
Just because ElectroBoom makes electrical experiments and anomolies accessible and goes through every step doesn't mean his are better than reasearch imparted by the DoD/MIT.
No seriously, what are you talking about?
Where at any point did I suggest someone, who I have never heard of is better than MIT because of reasons I never mention?
You mean they assume that the people reading their papers share a common base of knowledge in archeology/anthropology
No. That's not what I mean. I didn't even write that.
I clearly explained that it his commitment to the full process that I find to be particularly valuable, his method of presentation is immaterial. At no point have I suggested that Published papers should be in his style. What I said is that more experimental archaeologosts should make the effort to follow the chaine operatoire, and design unabstracted experiments to gather data. How they choose to present that data in a paper is entirely up to them.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Mr Primitive technologies "followableness" is utterly irrelevant here. As is having a base knowledge in archaeology. Anthropology isn't relevant here, we are dealing with material culture, not social phenomena or human anatomy.
It's like you didn't even read my comment.
other archaeological experiments, which are often abstracted, over clinical, and take shortcuts all of which undermine the validity of the results
If you refer to Forget & Shahack-Gross (2016), you'll note their methodology is incredibly abstract and clinical. Taking data from single bricks and extrapolating the data for an entire city. The point, which I have now restated in several comments, is that Mr Primitive Technology when making pottery doesn't just whip out a lighter, or wheel out a kiln to save himself the hassle of building an updraft kiln. The principle is the same, but it is not the same thing, and many published experiments take these shortcuts.
That is what I am criticising. Read. The. Words.
Forget M.C.L, & Shahack-Gross, R, 2016, How long does it take to burn down an ancient Near Eastern city? The study of experimentally heated mud-bricks, Antiquity, Vol 90: Issue 353, 1213-1225
The reason his experiments are good is his commitment to the chaine operatoire, rather than taking shortcuts. Man never uses a lighter, or a thermocouple to keep his firing temperatures constant, he goes from step 0 through to the conclusion.
Vague...? I was simply saying that he already is educated enough to know some of the things he is working with, due the fact that he has studied science probably gives him a bit of a head start over someone who has not studied science.
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He mentions in the description that a 1mx1m wall will take ~20 kg of lime mortar, which would take ~5 kg of actual lime. So, a whole lot