Soooooo many things have been unchanged for thousands of years in blacksmithing, masonry, farming, and leathercraft.
There are tons of idioms (in English, I’m sure there are ones in other languages) that originate from one of these things, or other old professions.
I remember seeing a tiny single-blade “arrowhead” at a more local historical museum, and the historical society with all their degrees and (in all seriousness) hard work putting everything together, non of them actually knew what it was.
Their best assertion was that it’s an iron arrowhead made some time in the last 500 years, I can’t remember the exact date but I want to say mid 1600s.
Its… A utility knife. Incidentally also used in leather. The wooden handle had long since rotted away when it was found, I’m sure.
But I’ve seen people use the same small utility knife for cleaning fresh hides as well as cutting/scoring the produced leather.
Basically one of these
but instead of it being solid through the handle, it tapers into a rat tail in about an inch.
So they thought “ceremonial/specialized arrowhead” because none of the people who worked there had access to the internet and reverse image searching at the time, and nobody there was into those kinds of hobbies and recognized it.
Of course, nobody gives a shit what a stupid dumb idiotic teenager says, they’re just children who know nothing. I did, however, know someone who likes reenacting colonial American things, and it’s one of his hobbies so he got ahold of them and got the information corrected within a few months.
Soooooo many things have been unchanged for thousands of years in blacksmithing, masonry, farming, and leathercraft.
There are tons of idioms (in English, I’m sure there are ones in other languages) that originate from one of these things, or other old professions.
I remember seeing a tiny single-blade “arrowhead” at a more local historical museum, and the historical society with all their degrees and (in all seriousness) hard work putting everything together, non of them actually knew what it was.
Their best assertion was that it’s an iron arrowhead made some time in the last 500 years, I can’t remember the exact date but I want to say mid 1600s.
Its… A utility knife. Incidentally also used in leather. The wooden handle had long since rotted away when it was found, I’m sure.
But I’ve seen people use the same small utility knife for cleaning fresh hides as well as cutting/scoring the produced leather.
Basically one of these
but instead of it being solid through the handle, it tapers into a rat tail in about an inch.
So they thought “ceremonial/specialized arrowhead” because none of the people who worked there had access to the internet and reverse image searching at the time, and nobody there was into those kinds of hobbies and recognized it.
Of course, nobody gives a shit what a stupid dumb idiotic teenager says, they’re just children who know nothing. I did, however, know someone who likes reenacting colonial American things, and it’s one of his hobbies so he got ahold of them and got the information corrected within a few months.