Lorenzo Lethimos Masolini

Knife Lorenzo Lethimos Masolini

This book is going to be the first to introduce you to the human history seen under a new perspective. The knife is the only tool that never left man's side, from the caves to modern skyscrapers blades shaped the man itself and made possible everything mankind is today. A journey through the Ages of history following the evolution of blades and discovering how we forged the knives and how knives forged our world. In this first volume we'll cover the Stone Age, from the first bone points to the latest evolution of composite stone tools on the transition period to the Bronze Age. We will discover the basic techniques of flintknapping and the use of natural materials like wood, resin, and animal skin to assemble the most technological tools that could be made starting from simple hard stones.