2000+ year old knife

[Charlie Mike]

A few weeks ago, I was looking at the knives I have amassed since I joined BFC. It looked great, but I new deep somewhere that I was forgetting something. Then I pulled out of the dresser a knife I haven't touched for years. It is an obsidian dagger, about 9" total length. It was given to me by a family friend who found it on an expidition in South America. She had it dated at least two millenia. Does anybody here have the ancient blades? Or know more about them? I swear as soon as I get a digital cam, I'll post it.

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Spydies... Bet you can't buy just one.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Moderator, please move to the right forum. Sorry bout that, I thought this was about good, bad, and ugly knives.

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Spydies... Bet you can't buy just one.

 

[Steve-O]

My dad has a few...hide scrapers, knives, arrow scrapers, arrow heads, spearheads, punches, etc. He also has a few stone tools.

His most prized is a knife, I think the local museum dated it at 1500-2000 years old. It's made of native copper and he found it in a road cut in Wisconson while looking for agates. It showed no signs of use and the museum said it was probably ceremonial.

Steve-O

 

[Esav Benyamin]

You can run into the opposite situation, too. An anthropology professor of mine was doing some work in the American southwest, and came across strange-looking arrowheads for sale at a shop. It turned out that some of the locals were making them out of thick glass, mostly broken off the bottom of Coke bottles.

Really beautiful and absolutely authentic technique ... but not antiques.