This means the obsidian breaks into pieces with curved surfaces that are razor thin and extremely sharp. The volcanic glass is thought to be so sharp because of the way it breaks, a pattern geologists call a conchoidal fracture.
“It is in this manner: First they get out a knife stone (obsidian core) which is black like jet and 20 cm or slightly less in length, and they make it cylindrical and as thick as the calf of the leg, and they place the stone between the feet, and with a stick apply force to the edges of the stone, and at every push they give a little knife springs off with its edges like those of a razor.” Hester et al.
Motolinia, a 16th-century Spanish observer, left this account of prismatic blade production: “The prismatic glass blade is infinitely sharper than a honed steel edge, and these blades can be produced in a wide variety of shapes and sizes,” wrote Bruce A. Don Crabtree who re-discovered the production technique in the 1970s.
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