I think it’s just a simple case of “Flint hard, limestone soft, scratch the limestone with the flint point, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat...”
I wonder at which point the stone-cutting tools stopped being stone themselves.. Bronze is probably too soft and even early iron might have been too soft and too expensive to use for stone-cutting.
I think it’s just a simple case of “Flint hard, limestone soft, scratch the limestone with the flint point, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat...”
I wonder at which point the stone-cutting tools stopped being stone themselves.. Bronze is probably too soft and even early iron might have been too soft and too expensive to use for stone-cutting.