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Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

Ancient humans may have risked their lives making stone tools

Accidents from making stone instruments might have resulted in lack of life and limb for historic people

Kent State College/American Antiquity/Michelle Bebber

Fashionable flintknappers who follow making stone instruments harm themselves with shocking frequency. However accidents that as we speak require stitches or a visit to the emergency room might have been a demise sentence for an historic stone employee residing in an period earlier than fashionable medication and antibiotics.

Among the flintknapper accidents reported in a first-of-its-kind survey can appear nearly comical, with two folks admitted to hitting themselves within the testicles and one individual dropping a …

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