bone tools
Skeletal material instruments
Bone tools are implements made from animal bones, used throughout human history for tasks like sewing, scraping hides, or digging.
The term appears primarily in archaeology and anthropology: The excavation revealed bone tools alongside stone artifacts.
Bone's durability and workability made it valuable before metals became available.
- harpoonsBarbed hunting spears
- fishing gearAngling equipment and supplies
- scrapersTools for stripping surfaces
- fishhooksBarbed angling implements
- awlsPointed hole-making tools
needles · combs · carving · Paleolithic · Stone Age · Ice Age · early humans · ivory · phalanges · hand tools · femur · toggles · hunter-gatherers · scapula · musical instruments · seal hunting · flutes · sewing
- Arctic PrehistoryThule culture, microblades, harpoons, stone tools, seal hunting
- Caribbean archaeologypottery shards, burial sites, ball courts, three-pointers, cave art
- artifactspottery shards, knives, masks, pottery, antiquity
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- ancient craftspottery, mosaics, weaving, carpentry, blacksmithing
bone toolsstone tools
Shaped rocks for tasks
metal tools · bronze tools · copper tools · flint tools · iron tools
bone toolspower tools
Motor-driven implements
machine tools · industrial equipment · laser cutters · precision instruments