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I don;t think any one revolution was responsible for a dramatic change in knife geometry, it's more probably a slowly evolving design as time passed on and new insights and cooking styles evolved.
It's one thing to cook a whole pig f.e. but as we see until today even a porchetta roast is cut into portions before serving and in case a wealthy family would reserve the whole for themselves I doubt they went at it as a whole.
somewhere between ripping whole joints apart and a Chef's knife things evolved, I bet they started cutting meat in the stone age (looking at the sharpness and variety of their flint tools)
It's one thing to cook a whole pig f.e. but as we see until today even a porchetta roast is cut into portions before serving and in case a wealthy family would reserve the whole for themselves I doubt they went at it as a whole.
somewhere between ripping whole joints apart and a Chef's knife things evolved, I bet they started cutting meat in the stone age (looking at the sharpness and variety of their flint tools)