Spanish Explorer meets Chief Hands of Stone in the new world(circa. 1540)

I fear there might be some examples in private collections, like the copper dagger, purportedly produced by the Moche, which I incidentally found on an auction website. I see no reason why the Incans, then, couldn't have made them, but I reason metalworking as an institution-

Frog Helmet used at the battle of Pampas, crafted by armorer P.Puck Housed at the Fliffmellington History Museum

Does anyone know if the inca ever used bronze blades in warfare? Like what was stopping them from making a bronze sword if they made axes and maces?

Compilado de pinturas rupestres brasileiras que possivelmente retratam — OU NÃO — animais extintos da megafauna. Eremotherium(?) Ibotirama, Oeste da Bahia

Smilodon(?) Sítio Arqueológico da Pedra Pintada

Most books by Harari and Diamond are great examples of this trend

sometimes I'll hear about an interesting sounding history book, and then I do some more research and learn that historians actually consider it the stupid book for morons that you should only read if you want to be wrong about everything

Checkmate archaeologists

In this haunting 1923 photograph, a Selk’nam woman stands in Tierra del Fuego with her child wrapped against her back in a guanaco fur cloak. At first glance, it looks like a quiet image of motherhood: a woman, a child, protection, survival. But behind it is one of the most devastating Indigenous histories in South America. The Selk’nam, also known as the Ona, lived for thousands of years on the island of Tierra del Fuego, at the far southern edge of Chile and Argentina. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers who survived one of the harshest climates on earth, relying heavily on guanaco for food, clothing, shelter, and tools. Then came settlers, gold prospectors, sheep ranchers, and the brutal logic of colonization. Land that had never been “owned” in the European sense was suddenly fenced, claimed, and turned into ranching territory. The Selk’nam hunted sheep as they had hunted guanaco, not because they were criminals, but because their world had been violently overwritten. To the ranchers, they became an obstacle. To the state, they became a “problem.” To bounty hunters, they became targets. Historians have documented campaigns of extermination in which Selk’nam people were hunted, captured, displaced, and killed as ranching and colonial expansion took over Tierra del Fuego. Missionaries later gathered survivors into missions, where forced assimilation, disease, confinement, and cultural destruction continued what the rifles had begun. Children were separated from old ways of speaking, moving, believing, and remembering. Survivors often stopped passing down language and identity because being visibly Selk’nam had become dangerous. That is one of the cruelest parts of genocide: it does not only kill bodies. It teaches descendants to hide themselves in order to live. For many years, the Selk’nam were spoken of as if they had vanished completely. But that language is changing. Descendants have fought to be recognized, to reclaim identity, and to challenge the idea that genocide made them disappear. In Chile, Selk’nam recognition became a major issue in recent years, with descendants insisting: *we are still here.* #drthehistories

Survey map of mound complexes along Mille Lac, Minnesota. The red dots are "mound groupings" with some representing hundreds of mounds. From: Brower & Bushnell 1900.

Embossed copper sheet depicting the “eye-in-hand” symbol. It is about the size of a man’s hand and is from the Spiro mounds in Oklahoma. It’s in a private collection and currently displayed in the MONAH museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. I’ve never seen this before.

Sioux Indians in the Dakota Badlands, Edward S. Curtis, 1910

Americans double-tapped a school in the first day of the Iran war, killing 120 children.

I try not to take too much notice of the slop that appears in my YouTube feed; however, sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, especially when I see the number of views. The AI of Klaus is in particularly poor taste. Who’s consuming this rot?

Cheyenne Dog Soldier Black Wolf, 1921

Made a whole video showing other examples of this

Did ancient humans hunt mammoths? #archaeology #science #ancienthistory #stoneage #history

A Double-Bitted Axe Bannerstone from Kankakee County, Illinois. Bannerstones date from roughly 6000-1000 B.C.E., with the main production phase between 4500-2500 B.C.E. Only one of hundreds.

"Encounter with a Giant," imagined by artist David Yorke