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From the Vault: The Invention of the Spoon, Part 1

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Ancient Stone Knives - Is This a Snipe?

There is no question at all that by a fewun thousand years ago, our ancestors were using sharpened pieces of stone to create blades. Based on recent discoveries n in africa, i think there is evidence of stone blades going back at least half a million years or so from kenya. But probably a major one of the uses for early stone knives was for the processing of animal carcasses. So again, if you're generous with what counts as a knife,.

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