Woodworking tools about 5-10000 years b.c.

[Coliban]

Last sunday i took a stroll on the fields near our home. As every time when i take a walk, i went a little aside the ways and searched the ground and found some tools, they used presumably about 5000 or 10000 years ago in this area.

As a student i worked for the archeologist museum to earn some money and there they taught me how to recognize stones which where treated by humans in order to work on wood, bones, furs, and so on.
(This area was transit for hunters in and between the last ice ages, they came after reindeers, deers, and so on and crossed the river elbe (which is near our place) and had their summer or transit camps etc., around here).

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[PreferrablyWood]

Nice story, early ancestor of the festool OF 2200 perhaps?

 

[Coliban]

Maybe...

But these sort of stones are nothing special since the whole land is gathered with this sort of stones, tools, weapons, etc. the museums have tons of stones in their cellars. You can tell if it is formed by man when you look at the edges: they are hammered with other stones or dear head and you can see small scratches where the stone cut off. These scratches are on a regular basis and not by accident because there are several in the same direction which would not happened if that would be by accident from moving over the ground by ice, the plough or something else. Often stones burst when water is freezing, but these marks are cut or hammered always from the edges at defined points.

At point 1 there are several scratches "hammered" in, that was the blade.
The other marks where made to dull the sharp edges so they could hold it in the hand (fresh impacted flintstone is very sharp and you can't use it without dulling it).

I took it and it is astonishing how well it fits in the hand and they made additional kerfs (3) for the thumb and for the other fingers, you would not guess how comfortable the stone fits into the hand! I tried to make some photos to illustrate this.

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[Peter_C]

Here I thought finding an Indian arrow head from a couple hundred years ago was so cool. Apparently not...

 

[Holmz]

nice job Oliver.
That gives us some perspective on things.
And cool how the tools were ergonomic.