hawgrider
07-10-2015, 06:19 AM
Using obsidian flakes 200 times sharper than a surgical scalpel makes short work of butchering a deer.
Our ancestors didn’t have the advantages of finely manufactured steel blades, heavy duty butcher’s gambrels, or bone saws. They had stone and that’s about all.
But after watching Shawn Woods slice through the hide, leg joints, and muscles of a freshly killed deer like a hot knife through butter, with nothing but an obsidian flake,
video here -http://www.wideopenspaces.com/butcher-deer-using-stone-age-tools-video/
Our ancestors didn’t have the advantages of finely manufactured steel blades, heavy duty butcher’s gambrels, or bone saws. They had stone and that’s about all.
But after watching Shawn Woods slice through the hide, leg joints, and muscles of a freshly killed deer like a hot knife through butter, with nothing but an obsidian flake,
video here -http://www.wideopenspaces.com/butcher-deer-using-stone-age-tools-video/