Do You Require Swiss Army Knives?
Your knife is the most essential item when camping. It is one of man’s oldest, most important tools. Originally made of flint, shaped into an edge, the knife has evolved from copper, bronze, into today’s iron or steel blades. And in the fine-grained sediment of a dry riverbed, in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, left long ago by an ancient people, lay the oldest relic of a knife ever discovered – dated to be 2.6 million years old. Fashioned from volcanic rock, knives have now evolved into the device that is today. Knives were used for hunting, building shelters, providing and preparing food, and in general, survival. Knapping was a method they used in the old times in making sharp bladed devices. It is the shaping of the tool through the process of lithic reduction. Obsidian, an extrusive igneous rock, were used to make some of the oldest knives.
