Kutsiliu

Ing kutsiliu (‘’knife’’ king Ingles) metung yang kasangkapan a bibilugan ning pulu o talanan a makatuglung king taram a gagamitan king pamangili. Iti metung yang kasangkapan a malyaring gamitan anting sandata. Minuna yang linto iti kanita pang adua ampong kapitnang miliung banua bayu ing panaun tamu, at iti patunayan da reng kasangkapan a Oldowan .

Amlat 
[[File:The knife Grinder - 1853.jpg|thumb|left|Ing Manais Kutsiliu (The Knife Grinder) - Ginulis neng by P. Weenix at dinukit (engraved) neng W. French - Mibulalag ya para kareng maki bandi kapamilata’nang AH Payne, Dresden & Leipzig - 1853 (Ibat kareng Dr. Nuno Carvalho de Sousa Private Collections - Lisbon)]]

Melalang la reng minunang kutsiliu kapamilata’ning knapping (papukpuk a pamagliluk [percussive flaking]) ning batu, partikular deng mangasias a batu anti ing w:obsidian ampong flint. Kanitang kapanaunan a [Paleolithic]], mapalyaring ginawa yang kasangkapan a anti kanita ing Homo habilis ibat king dutung, butul at aliwa pang materialis a gad masisira, dapot mewala no reti.

Aniang panaun a limang libung banua na ing milabas, aniang sinulung ing pamanigobra at pamangamit kareng metal, bagya-bagya lang miyalilan tangsu, bronsi, bakal, at banuang tauli, aseru. 

Gawa la kareng miyayaliwang materialis deng makabayung kutsiliu, kayabe no reng aserung samut a pangkasangkapan (alloy tool steels), w:carbon fiber, losa, ampong titanium.

 Uri da reng kutsiliu 

 Kabilian lalam ning leyi 

Keraklan, lilimitan no ning leyi deng kutsiliu, dapot maragu ing pamiyaliwa da reti dependi king bangsa o estadu, ampong uri ning kutsiliu. Alimbawa, ating leying magbawal king pamagdala kareng kutsiliung e makasalikut king kilual, at atin namang maglimita angga king pamagbandi kareng mapilang uri da reng kutsiliu, alimbawa deng lasetas. 

 Karagdagang pamamasa 
 Everybody's Knife Bible'' by Don Paul, ISBN 0-938263-23-4

Dalerayan

Lon la murin deti 
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 American Knife & Tool Institute
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