{"id":3318,"date":"2014-01-06T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2017-10-18T21:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T04:16:02","slug":"evolution-of-knives-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"History of Knives – Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stone Age Knives<\/h2>\n

The first knives used were created by simply fracturing rock- a new fracture being sharper then the original weather worn edge. Any broken rock can be used as a knife but some rocks were favored over others. Flint, chert, greenstone, and jasper were valued as materials that were extremely strong and held an edge for a relatively long time. Obsidian was valued for its keen glass-like edge, but less useful for some things because it is so brittle. other stones with more of a sandy quality were used like rasps rather then knives but were still important tools.<\/p>\n

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Although a basic flake of rock can be used for a variety of purposes, as time wore on people began shaping rocks for specific uses- arrowheads, axes, matates, and knife and spear points. Rocks were shaped by a process called knapping- breaking small pieces of stone away from the core with a hammerstone. The flakes could then be pressure flaked with a small harder stone or antler into balanced knives, arrowheads or spears.<\/p>\n

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Knapping takes a long time to learn to do well- The skill is kept alive today by a few hands on anthropologists and archeologists, survivalists, and hobbyists, but was used commercially up until 1947 to make strikers for flintlock firearms.<\/p>\n

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