• Nougat@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Nothing beats obsidian. You’ll see in a couple thousand years when people are still using it.

    • Singletona082@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      Heard tale of a guy that had his blindness cured by having his eye cut open and this … i forget what it is called but the part of the eye that had gone all white. His vision wasn’t GREAT, but he could see after!

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know how you guys work with obsidian. I thought flint flakes were sharp but you pick up the wrong shard of obsidian and it will cut your finger clean off! I mean I get that you can kill game more easily that way, but I’ll just stick with a flint-tipped spear and an atlatl.

      • Singletona082@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 days ago

        Nono obsidian isn’t for the hunt. Obsidian is for cleaning and dressing the meat and hide. Both because Obsidian’s sharpness when working the material, and flint is a hell of a lot easier to find and work with while still getting the job done.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        To be fair, I’d rather use obs for hand tools - cutting, skinning, scraping, notching. Shit’s expensive, yeah I have some obs spear heads “just in case,” but I’d rather not shoot them off and maybe lose them if I don’t have to.