Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
The ethnographic account of an Inuit man manufacturing a knife from his own frozen feces to butcher and disarticulate a dog has permeated both the academic literature and popular culture. To evaluate the validity of this claim, we tested the basis of that account via experimental archaeology. Our ex...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd
2019
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