The Ancient B.C Tools Frozen In The Yukon | Secrets From The Ice | Odyssey

I'm a Navajo native, Army Vetran from in Arizona. I am in tears of joy, family, pride, history,. Wiping my tears again. Thank you for this share, my heart is smiling 😀

I've hiked in the Yukon and it's wild to think about the history hidden beneath your feet. This documentary really brings home the feeling that we walk in the footsteps of many who came before us. These tools are a testament to human ingenuity and adaptability.

I'm a Yupik Eskimo, from Kotlik Alaska, the mouth of the mighty Yukon. We still use spears and spear throwers for hunting seals in the summer. Young kids can be very cracking throwers and fun to watch when we hunt seals with spears and harpoons. My people never stopped using the spears and spear thrower and harpoon. Awsome finds. There are many ancient artifacts throughout the mighty Yukon River. Greetings from Kotlik Alaska.

My father went on many far northern caribou hunts in his life, at Ungava Bay etc. I know from many years of listening to him that in the Summer that caribou will not seek altitude for thermo regulation but to escape the absolutely horrific concentration of large arctic mosquitos in the lowlands. The caribou are tormented by them, and the mosquitos will prevent summer weight gain and prevent proper development or even the survival of calves.

12:38 When the elder said "the shit in these snow patches proves it" caught me off guard so much I couldn't stop laughing loool 😭😭😭😂

When I was a boy we used to make throwing sticks like those discovered on the ice, we called them swathy's, I don't know where that name came from but it was a name that was universally known in the area that I grew up in. We quickly progressed from a wooden launcher to a piece of string with a knot in which you wrapped around the swathy locking it in position with the knot so that it released as you threw it. A piece of string goes in a young boys pocket better than a launching stick and we found it more accurate and it worked well whatever the swathy's length. We used a bay leaf shaped leaf inserted in a split in the end and retied with thin cord or fishing line for flights although a few pieces of string about 8 inches long whipped onto the end of the swathy worked just as well. We didn't have the patience to flint knap the points so we usually just carved a point and wrapped garden wire(from local building sites) to add weight to the front. We were devilishly accurate with them, and woe betide any rats that came in range. We of course didn't know the archaeological significance, its obviously what boys had been doing for thousands of years in play, long after the necessity to use them for hunting had passed.

In Australia the indigenous people there had the same weapon / tool as the Atlatl and have seen the distance and accuracy they can be thrown. To now know of these items being elsewhere confirms my belief in migration and the possibility that all nation are or can be related. What a awesome story to watch and learn from. Thankyou...

Gosh, I fell in love with each person who spoke in this documentary. I could watch and listen to them all tell stories and share their experiences for hours-they are all so rich with wisdom. So many First Nations people featured too! It was excellent to see them tell their stories. Really incredible.

Why does no one point out that this is absolute proof that the climate was so much warmer in the past that these northern areas supported hunters and large game animals.

Only 15 minutes in and this is already one of the neatest documentaries I have seen in a long time. The preservation of the artifacts is absolutely amazing.

This film hits what I believe to be the most important part of archeology: The story told to us by our ancestors about who they were, how they lived, and possibly how they died. It is poignant to feel the reality of a life lost while alone on the ice and snow. One can only hope that he was loved and cherished, and that his passing was not painful to him, while we continue to honor him for who he is, and what his body is able to speak to us. It is so painful that the Sami experienced the same cultural obliteration that so many other cultures have experienced.

This touches my heart deeply. How I wish the world could cherish peoples Lives the way these people do.

Being an ironworker, I wonder at the stories those metal points could tell. Losing one, that long ago, must have been a serious loss!

This is so fascinating. I should have not changed my major from archaeology to history when I was younger. It is odd that the ice sheets are melting to the to the degree they were thousands of years ago. It makes you wonder if those folks thought the world was going to come to an end from global freezing.

As a horticulturalist/ conservationist i would love to see if any seeds survived in the dung? I loved this documentary thank you

This is why I love documentaries. It gives you insight of things and events that happen anywhere on earth. My parents had pushed us on things like history, archeology, sciences that can keep us busy and learning. Interacting among us humans and nature is what keeps us learning more, apart from being too disruptive to our environment with civilization and from not becoming instinct, It's what we've learned is what has allowed us to keep thriving and evolving.

I went on a field trip to site about 12 years ago now (as a 7th grader), and they showed us the atlatl throwing pieces found in the area. To demonstrate how much skill it took to actually throw one of these accurately, they set up a frame (box shaped) about 30 feet away and told us that we had to get one in the box to eat lunch (because we were hunting our imaginary deer box). I am proud to say I was the only one who got it through, and I, am the successful hunter (also it was really hard lol)

“Their rate of melting was unprecedented “ ...except for the time when the entire North American ice sheet melted at the end of the last ice age...

Wow.... these discoveries are amazing! Such incredible finds--the stories they tell!

Man, this is awesome. This is the kind of documentary you hope to find.