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Originally Posted by Okamifujutsu
It's not a matter of relative hardness. It's a matter of energy, mass times velocity. You need a big rock moving fast. Another thing that makes it much easier is if you heat the iron first. Stick the iron in a fire for a few minutes, then try smashing it with a rock about the size of your head, and it will bend.
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Interesting how you mention the need to heat the iron well you would need to know about it first wouldn't you so that means, by your own logic, that the Indians did use iron furnaces or something similar to heat the iron to then shape it. So my case in point.
Why would anyone want to spend all that energy shaping iron beads with a rock the size of his head?