Post your stone age weapons here!

I'm responding to this old thread thanks to "circumstances". Nice work-up.

It always struck me as humorous that in the constant chatter of "POB" and "COP" and "harmonic node" we've forgotten that the root of these (mostly) friendly, erudite scholastic discussions is the eons-long historic effort of figuring out the most efficient manner in which to slay beasts, or humans; and that while shaping a lump of copper or iron facilitates this, even un-worked rocks can kill. For the record, research FBI statistics regarding relative frequency of use of murder weapons--ye old "blunt object" still kills more people yearly in the U.S.A. than those awful black rifles that are so reviled.

For you gaming geeks out there: I once let my adventuring party discover a trove of stone-age artifacts, and of course they were only interested in selling them to an antiquarian; never once did they consider using them as weapons. Too bad: Several were the equivalent of D&D +2 magical weapons, and the feather-hafted stone axe was a +3 holy weapon; but of course "modern" eyes could only focus on the material, not the capability. Recent generations evidently failed to learn from Indiana Jones.

Doesn't matter that you have an Albion-equivalent quality longsword, when an angry hobbit has a pouch-full of smooth stones...



 I recall the first major battle scene from Alexander. As the Persians were charging slingers came sprinting to the fore of the Greek lines and cut loose. Pretty cool seeing history reenacted in period style. But as you say not much that has been designed by man actually beats a plain old rock for blunt force trauma.not in all catagories the first of which is general availability. There's rocks laying everywhere waiting to become lethal weapons.  The head on the club/ax I put up is totally unworked. I found it laying there in a shallow part of the river perfectly shaped for hafting. It's not really an ax in any way but appearance. It's a brute force blunt trauma club. And it's fully usable. Quite sturdy. My sister is really into American Indian history artifacts and such so I made that for her birth day. My Mom and Dad are way into that to. For Christmas on year I made 4 attlatl spears. One for everybody on my list. For my lady I got really fancy and a bit moe in depth. Hers is not a using piece like the others though it will serve needs be.

I'll see about posting some pics later. I cold hammers a one toy ounce silver ingot into the tip for it. Shaped it with a file a bit but not to much. The silver dust that created a clear coated onto the shaft tip. It's adorned with peacock owl and hawk feathers and brightly painted. It's really petty cool. I'll go take some pictures and put them up. It's more of a medicine piece than the others I made. I tipped those with stone heads fletched then with buzzard feathers and stayed simple on the paint. I call it her "princess spear. LOL