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

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

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

• Research finally answers what Bronze Age daggers were used for [05/02/2022]

[moovova]

My knife comes out of my pocket 10-12 times a day for a variety of things...upto and including picking my teeth.

[Red Badger]

[Jamestown1630]

She’s pretty, for a cave girl.

[Red Badger]

[dfwgator]

Is that Bertha, Betty, Bella or Bathsheba?

[Orosius]

They were included for free in your NRA membership renewal.

[Red Badger]

Just another one of the famous Butt Sisters..................

[bert]

I would suggest the daggers are actually spear points.

[Red Badger]

Some most likely are, some are swords and some are daggers...........

[Chickensoup]

CEREMONIAL

is that another word for we do not know what it was used for???

[Red Badger]

That another word for “we do not know our ass from a hole in the ground.”................

[bert]

There can be speculation but the relative same sizes and similarity to flint and even clovis points tends toward spear points.

A razor sharp flint flake is superior to any thing made of copper for cutting

[Billthedrill]

Daggers are used for dagging. Everybody knows that.

[Red Badger]

They may have been dual purpose tools.

Like a Swiss Army knife...................

[dsrtsage]

They were used to turn cave dudes into cave chicks

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nah, they did make things that were designed to be pretty rather then purely functional.

But it was an "after everything else is done".

Dye, beads, jewelry, carvings of various things like bone, wood or stone. They did do things like that.

But a bronze dagger would have required probably a month of work to make and it would not have been something you could pick up and put down. It would have required taking at least two or more men off vital duties to make.

So something like that would have been for use.