flint tools
Prehistoric cutting edges
Flint tools are implements made from flint, a hard sedimentary rock that fractures into sharp edges when struck.
Early humans shaped flint into blades, scrapers, arrowheads, and hand axes through a process called knapping.
Flint tools dominated human technology for over two million years, from the Paleolithic through the Neolithic era: The excavation uncovered flint tools alongside animal bones.
- knappingFracturing stone for tools
- Stone AgeEra of knapped tools
- hand axePrimitive stone cutting tool
- PaleolithicEarliest archaeological era
- early humansAncient ancestral primates
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- Polish prehistoryBronze Age, Iron Age, burial mounds, urns, stone axes
- prehistoryNeolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen, paleolithic
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- antiquitiesancient coins, ancient relics, ancient artifacts, ancient pottery, ancient seals
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- Stone Agecave painting, paleolithic, hand ax, handaxes, hand axe
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Iron or steel implements
bronze tools · copper tools · metalwork · wrought iron · iron tools
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Motor-driven implements
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