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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It’s also pretty likely people started off just picking up nodules of metal and polishing them, tying a thread around them and wearing them as decoration. From there you learn to beat the nodule into a better shape, then you realise that it melts when heated, then you put several nodules together and melt them, then comes hot beaten metals, then simple casting.. And so forth. Iron is a big jump as it requires around 2500deg C, but many cultures discovered how to do it, so it seems people figured out the stuff was there. Even the ancient Egyptians had iron, just not much of it, but they knew how to obtain it and somehow work it into iron masks.
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