If early humans crafted a hammer or an axe from metal for example. How on earth did they craft the first tool that was used to create that hammer or axe. I know you can create a hammer from natural material like stone and an axe from a sharp piece of stone but how did they forge the first metal tools and even weapons?
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So…fun fact: a hammer is one of the easiest tools to make in that you take a rock of the right shape and affix it to a stick (with rope or leather) and there you have a hammer. If you happen to have copper or iron as the rock that you picked up (and back when thos was going on, that was a thing that could happen), you had a (very crude) metal hammer.
“Forging” could be done over a campfire, if it was hot enough (at least in the very beginning with copper). The more advanced the metal, the hotter the fire, of course
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