The first replaceable blade broad heads
Massachusetts
Prehistoric humans were manufacturing and using replaceable blade arrowheads (and spears). Multiple small flint blades were purposely created and attached to the shafts. A different article gave the reasons as being faster and easier to manufacture and better blood trails. The more things change the more they stay the same.
FROM ARTICLE: A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from around 35,000 to 3,000 years ago, across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowheads. Regardless of type, microliths were used to form the points of hunting weapons, such as spears and (in later periods) arrows, and other artifacts and are found throughout Africa, Asia and Europe. They were utilised with wood, bone, resin and fiber to form a composite tool or weapon, and traces of wood to which microliths were attached have been found in Sweden, Denmark and England. An average of between six and eighteen microliths may often have been used in one spear or harpoon, but only one or two in an arrow.
Wow, that's amazing. Wild how our ancestors ingenuity and genius supplied for them!
Amazing stuff. Especially when you think that ancient cultures did relatively the same thing as you today, we share ideas online and meetups and the passed on technological improvements at gatherings too. Modern man really had not invented much in this regard, but rather improved on it.
Tekoa, I wonder if you saw the recent discovery of stone tools used to butcher animals 700,000 years ago. See link. It makes you wonder.
if you guys saw what goes into making the 'pitch' they would use to glue heads/foreshafts/fletching you're be doubly amazed. if you think about it...since cromagnon is essentially 'us' with the same size brain & intellect...it stands to reason that they were capable of some pretty intense & complex thinking.
