AN ORIGINAL BUSHCRAFT KNIFE?

This being our bushcraft special issue and all, we had to do a story on puukkos (page 72), what some call among the original bushcraft knives. For those with a Scandinavian grind especially, the puukko seems made for bushcraft.

However, should the puukko really be considered one of the original bushcraft knives? This was among the questions Pat Covert, author of the story on page