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The early development
of swords can be traced back to the early stages of tool building. People
first made swords out of pieces of wood that they sharpened. Not many swords
were made out of pure stone but quite a few out of wood with stone or bone
edges. For instance island tribes in the south pacific made wooden sabers
with sharks teeth lining the edges and in Mexico they put obsidian flints
alone the edge of ironwood shafts. When metal became widely available it
used make the swords we would recognize today. They were first made from
copper plates over wood, then tin or bronze plates and eventually solid
metal blades were fashioned out of these metals. There is some argument
over when exactly iron was first discovered but it was used by the Egyptians
and the Assyrians. |
A Stone age sword
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