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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Fun fact: we can identify smiths by their burials. In ancient, but historical, times smiths were buried with their tools because they were thought to be haunted. This has allowed us to extrapolate to prehistoric burials that were populated by the same grave goods, four THOUSAND years before those historic burials.
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