Couldn’t find anything to validate this specific claim of archeologists claiming obsidian blades were kept close to the sun (under a roof???) to keep them sharp, but you see things like this pop up from time to time, wherein specialists or people from the region point out that a poorly-understood archeological find is just a specialist tool or regional practice that’s still in use.
It’s interesting because I would expect the opposite to be true, that archeologists would struggle to find a practical reason for everything when sometimes the people in question just thought the thing was neat.
Couldn’t find anything to validate this specific claim of archeologists claiming obsidian blades were kept close to the sun (under a roof???) to keep them sharp, but you see things like this pop up from time to time, wherein specialists or people from the region point out that a poorly-understood archeological find is just a specialist tool or regional practice that’s still in use.
It’s interesting because I would expect the opposite to be true, that archeologists would struggle to find a practical reason for everything when sometimes the people in question just thought the thing was neat.