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Prehistoric daggers long thought to be non-functional ceremonial objects interred in warriors graves were actually used to slaughter and butcher animals during the early fourth millennium BCE, a new study suggests.
A new breakthrough technology has been able to extract residues from Bronze Age daggers to show that they were meat butchering tools, not just status symbols.
Far from being solely symbolic in purpose, use-wear analysis shows residue of animals on Italian Bronze Age blades. But humans don’t generally confine butchery to the beasts