Soooooo many things have been unchanged for thousands of years in blacksmithing, masonry, farming, and leathercraft.
There are tons of idioms (in English, I’m sure there are ones in other languages) that originate from one of these things, or other old professions.
I remember seeing a tiny single-blade “arrowhead” at a more local historical museum, and the historical society with all their degrees and (in all seriousness) hard work putting everything together, non of them actually knew what it was.
Their best assertion was that it’s an iron arrowhead made some time in the last 500 years, I can’t remember the exact date but I want to say mid 1600s.
Its… A utility knife. Incidentally also used in leather. The wooden handle had long since rotted away when it was found, I’m sure.
But I’ve seen people use the same small utility knife for cleaning fresh hides as well as cutting/scoring the produced leather.
Basically one of these
but instead of it being solid through the handle, it tapers into a rat tail in about an inch.
So they thought “ceremonial/specialized arrowhead” because none of the people who worked there had access to the internet and reverse image searching at the time, and nobody there was into those kinds of hobbies and recognized it.
Of course, nobody gives a shit what a stupid dumb idiotic teenager says, they’re just children who know nothing. I did, however, know someone who likes reenacting colonial American things, and it’s one of his hobbies so he got ahold of them and got the information corrected within a few months.
Sometimes I just can’t bring myself to be the bad guy, because either you get the worst possible ending (sorry, can’t suspend my disbelief enough to believe bad people actually get bad ends) or it just goes over the top.
For instance, in one franchise you can be bad, but it’s mostly rude comments, insults, maybe a couple betrayals here and there… Then BOOM surprise you just shot a kid in the back of the head.
I’m all for being a bad guy but it has to be a well-written and iltelligent bad guy that actually rivals the good version, not just stupidly plodding through the worst possible choice “because a bad guy wouldn’t care that he just crippled his fleet and lost the final battle, because he got mad that one of the admirals called him a hothead and crashed his ship into theirs”
Who am I kidding, the moment I betray someone I like, I’m going to bail and go back to being a good guy