An experiment in making a stone vase with the help of stone and copper tools. Reconstruction of ancient technology.

The experiment was not intended to copy the ancient method of stone carving in detail. The experiment task was to show the possibility of doing such work with the help of primitive tools.

Stone vase specimens (Ancient Egypt): https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/76962...

- Material: breccia marble from the Narvsky openpit in the Krasnoyarsk Territory
- Ingoing size: 200x200x200mm
- Finished size: 80x135mm
- Tool materials: wood, sandstone, corundum (grindstone + grinding agent), hemp string, alabaster, quartzrock.
- Self made tools: a grinding and drilling machine, a bow drill, a chambering tool (a grindstone on a wooden handle), a copper saw, copper drills of various diameters.
- Total work time: about 6 months, 6 to 8 hours a day, excepting 2 days off a week. At least 2 months of this time period were spent on making and testing the tools.

2 emergencies occurred during the work process:
1. An emergency at the roughing-out stage: almost a half of the block broke off due to a fault in the stone, which made it necessary to significantly reduce the height of the workpiece.
2. An emergency at the chambering stage: a piece of the outer rim of the throat split off, which made it necessary to glue the chip onto its place.

Special thanks to Aleksandr Shevchenko for his help!

Carver: Olga Vdovina
Producer: Aleksandr Sokolov, ANTROPOGENEZ.RU
Advisers: Nikolay Vasiutin, Oleg Krugliakov, Pavel Sapozhnikov
Camera: Andrey Loychenko
Edit: Vitaliy Krauss
Music: Valeriy Senmuth
Photographer: Aleksandr Zakharchenko
Translator: Maria Shatulina
Driver: Roman Zhulayev
(c) 2018-2019

The experiment results were first presented on February the 3rd, 2019, at the "Scientists against Myths-9" educational forum (Saint Petersburg). http://antropogenez.ru/forum9-itogi/

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