The Inuit had iron?? Last I checked vikings did work with iron in Greenland but due to the lack of burning material they couldn't make much of it. In fact they reverted mostly to pre-iron age tools when the small ice age started around the 13th century. To my knowledge the Inuit never worked with any metal until they bartered knives much later.
Different point, I personally think that most "outdoor" knives are completely off the mark. For me the most common work you do camping is food prep and frankly all these oversised tacticool blades fare badly. Actually the simple kitchen knife works better than all the trash that is being offered as specially designed for the outdoors. When I was last in Skukuza I went to the museum to see Harry Wolhuter's knife, which he used every day being one of the legendary Kruger rangers, and it is a fairly simple design with a very thin blade. Looks like a big kitchen knife. He also used it to kill a lion and it didn't break. Guess you don't need sharpened prybars.