AHC: atlatl and flint knapping survive into modern Europe

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Europeans had forgotten or lost the atlatl and lithic tool making crafts by the modern period (well before in most cases). The challenge is to keep those technologies alive in Europe to a degree where people at least know that lithic artifacts are man made tools and atlatls are known in at least principle, at a minimum. Extra points if every village has a knapper as well as a miller and smith, and/or atlatls are used as commonly as other peasant weapons.
 
Do flint tools offer any sort of advantage over iron ones once those become available?

The atlatl is a more interesting idea--perhaps it finds a niche somewhere between the javelin and the bow as a weapon for skirmishers?
 
Do flint tools offer any sort of advantage over iron ones once those become available?
I'm not sure about flint, but nowadays some scalpels for use in delicate surgery (e.g. on hearts) are made out of obsidian because it takes a finer edge than steel: They'll actually cut between cells without damaging those, which reduces the time needed for those incisions to heal up.
 
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