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[GeronL]

how do they know what it was used for?

[mylife]

Believe me, that stuff is seriously sharp.

I found a few chipping grounds in the Mohave desert

[theymakemesick]

I guess NASA needs to tell muslimes that they invented surgery so they feel better about themselves. What? This piece was made 4600 years before Satan spawned islam through mohammed? Never mind.

[JimSEA]

The small town I grew up in had a number of perlite pits with obsidian nodules which had been gathered by ancient peoples for many hundreds of years. Walking along arroyos after rains, you could pick up dozens of arrow points, spear heads, scrapers and knives. They were beautifully made and, yes, extremely sharp.

[Condor51]

A piece of obsidian (volcanic glass) dating back 4,000 years and believed to have been used as a scalpel for surgery has been unearthed during excavations carried out in the Black Sea province of Samsun.

Big deal.
I'm pretty sure that the Dr who performed my Laminectomy in 1980 used a piece of Obsidian.

[needless to say it didn't go swimmingly.]

[John O]

I am absolutely certain that they performed surgery to remove the brains of their contemporary democrats. Now if we could just figure out who’s doing those same surgeries now we could get this country turned back around.

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[Dustbunny]

I think the key words that truly tell the tale are -— “believed to have been used as a scalpel”.