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