Pre-Incan knives

[Lot's knife]

900-year-old knives unearthed in Peru.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/21/healthscience/LA_SCI_Peru_Pre_Inca_Graves.php

 

[shecky]

Nice patina.

 

[bigbcustom]

Looks remarkably like one of the Egyptian trepanning blades. I wonder what kind of stories that knife could tell.........

 

[mr.trooper]

This guy used me to chop up some vegatables once....and then i got burried for 900 years....

 

[knarfeng]

Kind of reminds me of those round ULU eskimo knives.
Boy that would be a fun relationship to track.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Looks remarkably like one of the Egyptian trepanning blades.

Strangely enough, the Peruvians also did trepanning. Same reason: skull injuries by impact weapons.

 

[docdredd]

but does it adhear to the international 22.5 degree rule :> :>

 

[zenheretic]

but does it adhear to the international 22.5 degree rule :> :>

Nope. Now we know why the Incan civilizations came to an unexplainable demise.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Now we know why the Incan civilizations can to an unexplainable demise.

They were banned by the UN?

 

[3Guardsmen]

Who is in favor of having it sent to Cliff for testing?

Regards,
3G

 

[darkestthicket]

Looks remarkably like one of the Egyptian trepanning blades. I wonder what kind of stories that knife could tell.........

That is what i thought when i saw this also!

 

[jude_061]

knarfeng
my thoughts exactly. you'd be surprised how many relationships there are between peoples on opposite sides of the earth that were never believed to have met. some things are way too isolated an idea to have been developed by people independently of each other. That either attests to trade and thus contact, or to a development of that knife style millennia before it was believed to have been developed, and thus an idea brought with the migration of people onto this continent. The fact that many peoples between the polar natives and the Andean peoples did NOT use the ulu style blade (the aztecs used flint, obsidian and the like) leads me to believe that the style was passed on through contact, rather than brought in by migration.

the same is with language similarities, artistic and architecural and pottery styles.

then there's the uncontradictable evidence of a roman era wreck off brazil, roman phonecian and iberian coins, writing and artifacts unearthed up and down the new england coast.

its intriguing.

and all of this from a rusty old knife