I’ve recently watched a video of Tom Scott on his second channel where he made (with the help of a blacksmith) make a bottle opener.
The guy first made Tom to blacksmith a punch or whatever then he mentioned that “Blacksmiths had to make their own tools” or something among the lines anyways.
So it struck me. How did people make their first tools? Are there any records? Or were people just banging rocks to the metal, made a primitive sledgehammer then used that further on?
How did they even came up with the idea that if you put metal in fire you can *remodel* it?
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Just a note. I see comments saying that metal working could have been discovered accidentally. Please be very skeptical about such claims. It’s folk archeology. While accidents happen, it’s highly improbable that people would have just accidentally put metal ore in campfire so hot that the metal would melt and then they would see its melted form and recognize its usefulness.
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