Do you love your knive? (AKA knive appreciation thread)

lpg, what do you think the first ever knife was used for?

It was indubitably a weapon, with which to help kill prey. Food eating was still done with hands back then.

First use.....a weapon.

I don't want to get into this argument. I know, in a way what GA2G is trying to say, but I do believe this thread had a perfectly innocent intention. But, just to be a pedant archaeologist, the first knives were used to prepare food, hides, bones, wood and other organic materials (reeds, roots, vines), not as weapons. I highly doubt there were nutjob neanderthals running around leaping on boar and aurochs with flint blades. I wouldn't fancy my chances against a wild boar with one of these, beezer for skinning a deer though.