HoosierQ
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Clubs are good. The people of New Guinea use a club made out of some sort of obscenely hard tropical wood. The thing is shaped more or less like a pick handle but in cross section comes to a point down each side. Again this wood they use is as hard a iron and when this thin edge, backed up by bulk hits something, much damage is done. And being wood, it is light enough to get in subsequent strikes, unlike say an entrenching tool.
The ancient Egyptians, in the Old Kingdom had only copper. They used a mace. A granite ball, the size of a baseball with the hole through the middle and a haft through it like a modern hammer head.
Clubs are good. The people of New Guinea use a club made out of some sort of obscenely hard tropical wood. The thing is shaped more or less like a pick handle but in cross section comes to a point down each side. Again this wood they use is as hard a iron and when this thin edge, backed up by bulk hits something, much damage is done. And being wood, it is light enough to get in subsequent strikes, unlike say an entrenching tool.
The ancient Egyptians, in the Old Kingdom had only copper. They used a mace. A granite ball, the size of a baseball with the hole through the middle and a haft through it like a modern hammer head.