Anthropology Why New Guinea Warriors Prized Human Bone Daggers

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posted by Owlchemy on Archaeology

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the warriors of New Guinea had a choice of deadly bone daggers; they could fight with daggers crafted from human thighbones or weapons shaped from the thighbones of cassowaries, flightless, dinosaur-like birds.

New Guinea would have won the emu war with daggers. Aussies lost with machine guns.

[–] Owlchemy [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

That is if Aussie land is real ... I saw a video posted yesterday that said it might not, per some.

[–] xyzzy 1 points (+1|-0)

AFAIK the emu war was real though.

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Anthropology Why New Guinea Warriors Prized Human Bone Daggers

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