20 Jun
2004
20 Jun
'04
4:20 p.m.
Who nowadays
can knap a stone knife? hunt and kill game with no
weapon but a spear? make a bow, and arrows to go with it? make a
fire with a wood drill, or even flint and steel?
Who the hell needs to know this
stuff on a daily basisanyway? If you need to know how to do this stuff, ask someone
that knows, or
go to the library.
The knowledge isn't lost, people, it is archived
just where it ought
to be.
Is it? These aren't exactly things on which textbooks are written.
(I do recall reading of some archaeological team who taught themselves
to knap stone tools, but I'm inclined to doubt it's the kind of
knowledge that lends itself very well to recording.)
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