We Thought We Knew What These Ancient Daggers Were Used For, But We Were Wrong

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | May 10, 2022 | CALLUM MCKELVIE

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[Sacajaweau]

And lets be real...everyone was a warrior. Why in some graves and not others? You really want to mess up a table setting for 6??

[Magnum44]

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t know if they’ve ever come to a decision as to what these were used for, but they certainly went to great effort to decorate some of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_stone_balls

[minnesota_bound]

They noticed the etching on them. Turns out it was just a set of daggers from “Cave Creek & Beyond”.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Numerous copper-alloy daggers have been unearthed in Bronze Age warriors' graves across Europe, along with other weapons, and archaeologists previously speculated that the daggers may have served as status symbols.

That is because "Status" is the new "toy".

It is part of the postmodernist line.

It is a bunch of hooey as anyone who has practices primitive craft will tell you. There is so much to do to keep you in just the basics that making useless status symbols would have been way down on the list of things to do.

[Afterguard]

Put one of those in a sock and it’d make a better weapon than a bicycle lock.

Just don’t tell any left-wing professors about this find.

[seowulf]

Of course these were made for practical everyday uses.<> Ancient people didn’t have time to make objects for ‘ceremonial’ use, they were to busy trying to SURVIVE...................

Exactly, and I'd bet animals weren't the only thing that got slaughtered with those sharp, pointy things either.

The right to keep and bear arms didn't start in 1776.

[Red Badger]

Making useless status symbols would have been NON-EXISTENT on the list of things to do.........................

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlqLHcphyw

[Little Ray]

How the heck did they keep copper knives sharp enough for such work?
I guess the “alloy” part of copper alloy is important?

[Jamestown1630]

Wow. High Art...

I’ll stick with the Neolithic aesthetic.

[Adder]

“You get all this but wait there’s MORE!”

[Jamestown1630]

I wqnder what all that bronze age jewelry was for.

[Farmerbob]

[They were clearly used as can openers.]

You are mistaken. The fine knives and daggers used to open cans were found in the Philippines.

I told my (filipina) wife that using my cutlery to open cans was a serious offense. I should have mentioned that chopping ice, bone, and frozen meat was also frowned upon.

[ferret_airlift]

Nonsense, these are from warrior cultures. They did all of their shopping at Bloodbath and Beyond.

[MayflowerMadam]

LOL! Clever.

[KingLudd]

Give any 10 year old boy a non-functional ceremonial object that looks
even remotely like a sword, knife or dagger, ether now, 100 years ago, or 10,000 years ago, and they’re gonna stick and slash something or someone.

[SunkenCiv]

Yup.