Qin chinese- mongols

[fred.]

All been fairly quite then   

[marie]

yh, and you try painting mongols on Malaria drugs.....lol

[Leman]

I suppose it depends how many Mongols you want to paint on the Malaria drugs, bit like writing the complete works of Shakespeare on a grain of rice. Oh frack!  initially I wrote Shalespeare

[FierceKitty]

I suppose it depends how many Mongols you want to paint on the Malaria drugs, bit like writing the complete works of Shakespeare on a grain of rice. Oh frack!  initially I wrote Shalespeare

Flint, yes, but no ways can you make a working spearhead from sedimentary rock.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Slate works well too!
Once made a decent set of arrowheads from slate.

[FierceKitty]

Arrowheads are much smaller than spearheads.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Worked for javelins too. Be remade a thrusting spear (but I was about 9)!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looks like I'm not the only one!

http://www.timelineauctions.com/lot/slate-inuit-spearhead-collection/6273/

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Arrow-and-Spearheads-out-of-Slate

[Techno]

With flint arrowheads....and having watched some clever clogs napping (?) flint...
If you ever find one, how can you be certain that it's 'genuine' prehistoric example, and not one that's been made recently ?

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

However, sedimentary spearheads revealed this
http://www.spearheadbeer.com/real-beer

[Techno]

Aren't hops a little soft for making arrows and spears ? 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

There's no way of telling Techno apart from stratification evidence, if it's found in situ with other evidence it becomes dateable chap.

Also the stone age lasts the best part of 2million years, whereas the Bronze Age is about 2000 years and the Iron Age is 700 years!

And the periods overlap depending where you are in the world! Britain went into the Bronze Age early, but Iron Age late. Papua New Guinea only got to the Iron Age in the 19th century!

[FierceKitty]

I'd better avoid getting involved in the production side of neolithic weapons. But the one in my mind is, of course, the formidable edge which can be made of obsidian.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 Glazing over that...

[Techno]

Surely, there weren't any folk who fashioned obsidian into weapons.....Or have I forgotten an ancient civilization ? 
Cheers - Phil