[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[BCS]

Hello Sean,

> In another MythBusters episode they were asked to try and figure out
> whether there was any practical benefit to arrows with flint tips vs.
> simply being sharpened, and their results were surprisingly ambiguous.
> The flint tipped arrows seemed to penetrate slightly better, but this
> didn't seem offset by the greatly increased labor to make them.
> Clearly, stone-tipped weapons were preferred over normal ones if
> archaeological evidence is any indication, but I'd really like to know
> why.  Stone tools makes complete sense (and therefore hatchets as
> well), but why add a stone tip to something ostensibly disposable like
> an arrow unless it provides a substantial benefit in terms of the
> likelihood that a kill will be successful?
> 

After the tip get in the animal, it breaks off, grinds up and does more damage 
as the animal runs away. Even modern razor edged arrows kill by bleeding 
the animal out.