And here you thought you were so modern with that plastic fork! A discovery in Israel points to the use of disposable cutlery by ancient peoples. Here’s the article from the AP. You can read the rest at Breitbart.com.

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli archaeologists believe thousands of ancient shards of flint found scattered around a fire pit in a cave near Tel Aviv might be the world’s oldest known disposable knives.

Dating to the Stone Age, the tiny knives are believed to be at least 200,000 years old. A Tel Aviv University excavation team found the tools around a fireplace littered with charred animal bones.

Archaeologist Ran Barkai said he believes Stone Age hunter-gatherers used the rough, round-shaped cutlery—ranging from the size of human teeth to guitar picks—for slicing through cooked meat because they were found next to the animal bones. The bones were used to determine the age of the knives.

The number of knives found, coupled with the fact that they had no signs of sharpening, indicates they were disposable because they would have dulled after several uses, he said.

The knives were made from recycled material—parts of larger knives and tools designed for other uses such as butchering animals and scraping hides, he said.

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