Really still living in the stone age, I see, eh old man?
Melting rocks is dumb when you can just chip them.
It’s bullshit. I had to carve my own tools. Why do these entitled shits get to just buy tools now?
How can you even trust the quality?
Well, I can know for sure that the guy I buy my copper tools from does only high-quality.
Horrible right?!
If I make my tools I atleast know they are terrible!
Trying not to lose the thread… What’s next? Something like “and I’m supposed to trust some computer type nerd at John Deere telling me how to carve my own rock!!!” perhaps?
Metalworking is an addiction that makes us dependent on Big Furnace.
Each technology makes humankind more enslaved to the mistakes of its ancestors.
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.
I’m busy knapping when I’d rather be napping.
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?
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.
Haha, already subbed. I bought his book when it came out too. Great channel!
No one can destroy the Metal
The Metal will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the Metal
We tried to win, for why? We do not know
I remember when reed baskets were invented. Everybody wanted one. I kept bones in mine.
Makes carrying what’s been found a lot easier.
16000 BCE kids too
I’m not into paleo.
Ok Gramps, im done eating wild berries! Kids nowadays eat bread and drink beer!
Kids these days ain’t tripped on cow shit mushrooms. What’s the world coming to
Aurochs might have gone extinct, but cubes are still pretty popular
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!
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