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There is a story like that with a preserved Bronze Age hut where knifes were found stashed in the thatched roof. A historian proposed it was a spiritual ritual
by erulabs 3y ago
There is a story like that with a preserved Bronze Age hut where knifes were found stashed in the thatched roof. A historian proposed it was a spiritual ritual surrounding their hunting weapons.
The first parent that took a look knew what it really was: simple childproofing.
- Ekaros 3y agoSo many other alternatives. Hiding from thieves, someone playing around and simply losing it. Or maybe someone was fixing something and lost it.
- Aeolun 3y agoEverything aside from thieves seems unlikely if multiple knives were stashed there. And thieves are way less common than children.
- frigfivf 3y agoIn Ireland, even now, there is a folk saying which refers to keeping a "pike in the thatch". So that is a literal survival of the concept of hiding weapons in the thatch. See e.g. https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/translation-of-irish-words-and-phrases-2184832-Jun2015/ https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/translation-of-irish-words-...
- sidewndr46 3y agoGiven the incredibly high value of any knife in such a society, I'd suspect it was just an anti-theft measure. You can't really climb up on someone's thatch roof while they are sleeping, rustle about until you find their knife, then slip away into the night.
- Aeolun 3y agoI read this as them being stashed from the inside. At least if you want to go with the theory of childproofing.