>>1918187>He is not improvising, he is just researching shitHe's literally improvising in most of his videos, the subtitles even tell you this. The latest video contains several botched attempts with glazings.
Practical archaeology is founded on improvising around a few known quantities to try to recreate likely methods for making ovens, forges, kilns, various pottery manufacturing methods and so on.
>He is not reinventing civilizationHe literally has to, because there's no guidebook that covers this because the vast amounts of the facts aren't known. In fact it's the exact opposite of:
>you can't apply basic physical laws >everybody could do what he does if they spent enough time researching I thought this was understood but apparently not. You have to mix and match what we know now with what we can invent with a few select finds from history and extrapolate. That's the major criticism of practical archaeology.
>>1918191>i htink you are just so impressed because you can't imagine yourself doing what he doesI wouldn't have the patience to recreate it. We know for a fact most people even those who have the skills to do it, wouldn't do it, because they don't. So yes I'm impressed and so is a large swath of people. Because it's interesting and speculative and trial & error.
> anybody who can understand basic physical principlesThis is how I know you're completely full of shit and have never built anything in your fucking life. For reference, a person who knows "basic physical principles" couldn't even make a wooden drawer, let alone frame a house. You're using nonsense statements, vague handwaves and you don't know jack shit about any of this. If you're over 18 you're an idiot.
