Elizabeth Weiss
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first heard Jul 2026
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I believe that by the time Europeans made contact with natives, both in South America and in North America, they weren't doing it anymore.
So it's not necessarily that the contact made it stop.
One of the things is we're pretty sure that the tools were stone tools.
Obsidian is very sharp.
And one of the reasons why that is, especially for the Americans- I'm getting headaches just thinking about this.
It gets up to about 90% success rate at the very end in Peru.
The reason why they likely use stone tools is because they would have had to flake them new every time.
And so they were sterile.
Yeah.
So if you're using the same tool every time, you're more likely to get an infection, which I think is kind of fascinating in of itself that, you know, the tools were probably sterile just because they had to be so sharp.
No.
It sometimes was, like in the Carthage collection, there's two cases that I've looked at, and they both had injuries, so probably related to cranial injury.
And I'm not saying that these prehistoric people necessarily knew that that's what they were doing, but they knew people were...
the people would likely express that they were in pain.
And they were like, okay, what's going on?
And let's see if we can do something about it.
Well, with their language, right?
With written language.
Right, right, right.
It's hard to say what, you know.
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