[SunkenCiv]

Metin Eren, Ph.D., associate professor and director of archeology at Kent State University, demonstrates flintknapping.

Credit: Kent State University

[SpaceBar]

If you survived back then, your hands were as tough as leather gardening gloves.

[rottndog]

Machinists and metal workers know all about this.

[higgmeister]

This is the silliest thing I have read in a long time.   Of the vast multitude of life threatening things the ancients had to face, I suspect the mortality rate of cuts from flintnapping was not even on the list.

[GMThrust]

I’m also sure that their sanitary habits could’ve been a problem as well. So, what’s the point of this Thesis/study? Maybe this guy is wrong and they knew how to protect themselves?

[Hot Tabasco]

If only the Consumer Product Safety Commission had been around back then....

[IYAS9YAS]

Starving to death vs flint-knapping injury. Hmmm. What to choose?

[Farmerbob]

Probably shouldn’t knap on your groin. Maybe that is why “flintknapper” never caught on as a surname like “smith” or “fletcher”.

[Telepathic Intruder]

They probably just hired neanderthals to do the jobs they didn’t want. They were stupid enough to work for little pay while unaware of the danger, which is why there are none left.

[Redcloak]

I’ve heard it said that if you ain’t bleedin’, you ain’t knappin’.

[Sacajaweau]

Interesting tool....

[oil_dude]

being eaten by a sabre tooth tiger was also high on the list of things that can kill a caveman (sorry, ‘caveperson’)

[bunkerhill7]

It’s a piece of bullsht. I was taught by Mohawks how to chip flint for arrowheads, scrapers, axeheads, etc when I was 8 years old. There was an ancient worked flintbed in my barnyard. Did these idiots even ask a Pawnee or Sioux person? What a bunch of morons.