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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Technology
  • Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:15:00 -0800

At 11/18/2006, you wrote:
When someone first learned to work metal that technology
put the flint knappers out of business,

Early bronze did not put knappers out of business. Metal weaponry was very expensive and somewhat fragile. Those Egyptian armies with bronze swords were backed up by bowmen shooting stone tipped arrows. It was not until metal became cheaper that flint knapping was totally displaced.

As shown by Tain, every new development is expensive and there is less return for the effort. Anyone can make a stone tool, some fewer can knapp a stone knife. There is even more effort to mine, allow, then cast a bronze knife. And so it goes to where no one person can make a modern automatic rifle.

A stone point can be knapped out from raw materials found almost anywhere. All you need is a suitable stone, a hammer stone to break off preforms, small stones and antlers are the remainder of the tool kit. Now without massive inputs of cheap energy, make a machine gun firing depleted uranium bullets.

Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com
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http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

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This was a good read. I remember back in the 70's when I first started working on biointensive methods. I had no big tools so I had to make my garden with a little spade and my hands. In 2 years, I was growing an awful lot of tomatoes, cukes, peppers, etc. No potatoes, which really bummed me out. I LOVED potatoes. My kid now lives in a trailer park and has almost no yard and was really wanting to atart a veggie garden. I gave him "Square Foot Gardening " for his birthday this year and he's really excited about it. He had no idea you could grow so much in such a small area. I guess he never realized how much food was coming out of the little gardens when he was growing up. Anyway, the book is still in print and still is a great starting point.

Tracy Julian
in East North-Central Minnesota

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Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Security


I saw this article on another list, and thought that since we were
discussing food and hunger, it would be appropriate here, too.

http://www.energybulletin.net/22584.html

Bev





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