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Article: Stone-Age Survival: How to make emergency implements in the field.(Survival)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Byline: Keith McCafferty
The tools used by our ancestors are typically thought of as crude and rudimentary. But the stone knives, axes, and spears produced by Neolithic cultures are near equals of their modern counterparts in both form and function. In fact, today's sharpest surgical scalpels are made not from steel but from obsidian flakes so fine that they can slice between, rather than through, human cells.
What does this mean for a sportsman? Nothing much, right up until the day you find yourself lost in the wild with no survival tools except those you can fashion from what's around you. With a little know-how, even the woodshop-challenged ought to ...
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