Iron laying all over the ground in parts of North America. Injuns must not have been interested.
“Iron laying all over the ground in parts of North America. Injuns must not have been interested.”
Why? It wasn’t practical for them. There is a whole lot of time and work that goes into smelting metal. Why when they could just reach down pick up a stone and knap out a point in 15 minutes. They lost half of their arrows and points anyhow. Much more practical to replace lost stone points than metal points.
We still use stone because of it’s superior sharpness... It is 100 times sharper than metal.
https://record.umich.edu/articles/surgeons-use-stone-age-technology-for-delicate-surgery/
They were too busy killing each other...................
I would image they simply didn't do anything to achieve the higher melting temperatures.