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056 Ancestors with Professor Alice Roberts

The British Museum Membercast

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Copper Knife

Tiklyii didn't have flint knives as well, which would have been preferable. Yes, no, copper is ont something you'd want to cut with. A i think his copper knives must have been mostly about display. And being able to do it would have been part of status as well. So, soy very much that you needed the knowledge to am release metal from stone. It's magic. Its like alchemy, isn't it?

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