Ethnographic Kitchen Knives??

[fearn]

Originally Posted by Mark

Here's one with some age on it. Not exactly "kitchen" (open-air butcher shop, perhaps). It is an Acheulean hand-axe found along a river bed in central Ethiopia. Its about 5 inches long and 3 wide, and upwards of 1.5 million years old. Its quite something to hold, considering that the guy who made it wasn't even fully human (probably Homo erectus).

Ummm Mark,

Are you saying that you use this in your kitchen???

[Mark]

Originally Posted by fearn

Ummm Mark,

Are you saying that you use this in your kitchen???

Only for very large cuts of meat.

[pallas]

ive seen kitchen knives with yataghan "ears" before