Nothing beats obsidian. You’ll see in a couple thousand years when people are still using it.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Same. man. For the same reasons.
I remember when reed baskets were invented. Everybody wanted one. I kept bones in mine.
Makes carrying what’s been found a lot easier.
I’ve been watching Donny Dust on YouTube. Now I’m gonna be sourcing some flint this spring.
Check out primitive technology
Turn subtitles on.
No I’m not joking.
A late bloomer? Folks have been snapping since Homo Habilis. My great^54 grandpa told me they used to gather flint and they would find the right rocks after walking uphill, both ways, backwards, in the snow.
…what is snow?
Metalworking is an addiction that makes us dependent on Big Furnace.
Bah. you’re just too lazy to learn how to build one. It’s not really that hard to do, and stone tools still have their use and place. There are, so they say, great and vast deposits of metal, but most are hard to get to. stone is everywhere, even if the good quality stone is a touch rarer.
Keep the knowledge of stone shaping alive. Even if the stone tipped arrow is replaced by copper, those copper arrow heads are far rarer than the stone that has always existed.
