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To: SunkenCiv

Cool. Why aren’t there any hammers?


7 posted on 05/20/2025 2:24:46 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy

I have to shape granite in my work as an inscriber and very often as I do it with my powered modern tools I think of these guys who did it 2000 years ago and I wonder : HOW? Takes me long enough as it is. That aside, looking at the tools I’d guess that the user did only very specific things with this set. They look like tools to cut lines close fine edges and soft urges and shapes. They could also be used to cut guide lines in larger pieces for the heavy guys to rough out.


11 posted on 05/20/2025 2:56:36 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: ComputerGuy
Hammers, oddly enough, were among the last tools invented. And even more odd is the fact that *nails* were invented at least 1000 years earlier. No one could figure out what to do with them, so they were stuck in a drawer until the fortieth generation of young craftspeople asked one more time, "what are these for?"

18 posted on 05/20/2025 5:22:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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