60
Primitive Technology: Grate furnace, wood fired smelting experiment
(www.youtube.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
60 points (100.0% liked)
Humanities & Cultures
3057 readers
10 users here now
Human society and cultural news, studies, and other things of that nature. From linguistics to philosophy to religion to anthropology, if it's an academic discipline you can most likely put it here.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
He did end up making a small blade at some point, but it seems like the process of getting iron ore from bacteria is excruciatingly slow. If he was in my area he'd be walking around in full plate armor by now.
How great would that be? If you know anyone who's done that whole technology tree from the ground up, let me know.
Years ago I watched this video that demos old iron smelting technology in Burkina Faso, and these people get farther. They have better natural iron deposits (also lots of people working together helps).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ
Super cool, thanks!