Originally Posted By: Byrd_Huntr
I am not a Native American, but I greatly admire the ancients' ability to live off the land. They had no metal tools,


For most of human history, none of us had any metal tools. It was Neanderthal Mode all the way.

Modern experiments show that stone tools are quite functional. Mostly they just need sharpening more frequently than their metal counterparts, and you need a different skill set to sharpen them up
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