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For some people working 'unplugged' means reaching for the nearest cordless power tool. But there are many who prefer to go back in time to traditions of hand tool usage and then exert the necessary sweat to perfect the skills required.

The reality is however, that the power plug has only been in the socket for but a blip in the electrical circuit of time.

In this video we see how every year a group of archaelologists study how stone and bone tools were used 7000 years ago — we’re talking Neolithic Age here. What they’re saying is that most carpentry joins were already ‘known’ then, and made with tools that rate as ‘hi-tech’, definitely not ‘primitive’. By using these tools these archaelogists hope to understand better the tool marks found on ancient discoveries and thus push the history of carpentry back a few millennia.

This hand tool technology predates even the furniture created by the Egyptians that is often pointed to as being the first high class joinery around. And that's about as traditional as it's possible to get.

Check it out in the video below where the guys fell a few trees with stone tools just to prove the point.

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