LIFE

Cutting to the point

B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 08/03/2015

» The first tool to appear in the world, invented by the Middle Stone Age man of the Mesolithic Period around 6,000 BC, was the knife. The first ones we know of were chipped from stone or seashells, with the edges or point sharpened to carve meat or remove animal skins to make clothing.