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Ancient Tech: Here's How To Make A Neolithic Flint Axe
« on: April 07, 2017, 08:17:20 am »
Have you ever wondered how stone-age humans managed to make such intricate tools? Despite having basically nothing but stone to work with, our ancestors somehow managed to sculpt smooth, sharp rocks that are perfect for bashing the neighbouring tribe's heads in.

So to explain exactly how it was done, English Heritage has put together a new video showing the process - and it's a good reminder of just how time consuming everything was in an era before modern manufacturing. Worse still, they probably couldn't even stick a podcast on to pass the time while bashing the stone into shape.

More plus video (it's only 3 and a bit minutes) at link: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/ancient-tech-heres-how-to-make-a-neolithic-flint-axe/
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Re: Ancient Tech: Here's How To Make A Neolithic Flint Axe
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2017, 08:36:19 pm »
HUGE amount of waste of flint to get the axe head.
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Re: Ancient Tech: Here's How To Make A Neolithic Flint Axe
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2017, 08:46:24 pm »
Seem to recall that the waste would be knapped into knives, spearpoints, and scrapers (and later arrowheads). I do know the Aztecs used to use the waste obsidian shards to edge wooden swords. Not something that tended to happen in Europe, far as I know.
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Re: Ancient Tech: Here's How To Make A Neolithic Flint Axe
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2017, 09:10:58 pm »

From male and female DNA analysis, it can be determined where your ancestors were, when they lived with such technologies.

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Re: Ancient Tech: Here's How To Make A Neolithic Flint Axe
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2017, 02:04:02 am »
We humans were in a stone age for a very long time. Does anyone think we may have reached peak flint and were forced to find substitutes in Eurasia?
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