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Did native americans have throwing knives?
6 Answers
- Anonymous5 years ago
Yes
- ?Lv 75 years ago
Not before colonization. Some North American Amerindians had begun using copper; and other Amerindians were just at the beginnings of metalurgy. Thus they were reduced to using stone implements (slate knives and stone tomahawks); and slate would shatter if thrown and encountered any harder surface.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Pre-Colombian, not so much. They were better off attaching the flint blades to a shaft and using it as a spear. A well balanced iron blade obtained in trade would lend itself to being thrown, but, as far as I know, there was not real tradition of American Indians using knives in this way.
- AthenaLv 75 years ago
They had very little metallurgy at all. You are talking neolithic stone age cultures as late as the 15th century AD.
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