“This study emphasizes how important stone tools would have been to past peoples,” Eren said. “They literally would have risked life and limb to make stone tools during a period without band-aids, antibiotics or hospitals. But despite those injury costs, past peoples made stone tools anyway—the benefits provided must have been immense.”
Despite the dangers, early humans risked life-threatening flintknapping injuries
I never imagined it was this bad but those things are super sharp so it makes sense.
Our resident archaeologist, Reid Farmer, thought this was cool new data.