DavidMcC wrote:only that a successful result (smelting) was pretty much impossible.

Smelting has nothing to do with it. Technology might not require metallurgy, it seems to be that it doesn't, but most importantly, to reproduce the development of technology, a non-technological state is required.

ughaibu wrote:

DavidMcC wrote:only that a successful result (smelting) was pretty much impossible.

Smelting has nothing to do with it. Technology might not require metallurgy, it seems to be that it doesn't, but most importantly, to reproduce the development of technology, a non-technological state is required.

While technology does not require smelting, the advancement of technology to where it is now almost certainly requires smelting.

When you get to the scales in which tech works for us now, the need for refining metals is likely an absolute.

Metals have been so fundamental to our technology for so long, I don't see how there could be any advancement without it.


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ughaibu wrote:

DavidMcC wrote:only that a successful result (smelting) was pretty much impossible.

Smelting has nothing to do with it. Technology might not require metallurgy, it seems to be that it doesn't, but most importantly, to reproduce the development of technology, a non-technological state is required.

Ughaibu, which underwater technology do you think could have been developed without ultimately relying on smelting?