Featured Stoneage utensils

Hello folks,

I am hoping that some member here might be able to help me a little please......... Whilst I have hundreds of books on arms and armour, swords and weapons, I have absolutely nothing apart from the odd paragraph in a book on stone age weapons or utensils.

I have a few odd items, these are just some of them, that i am going to give to a little girl here in the village who is potty about stones, minerals and the such. However, I would like to be able to tell her at least something about some of the items.

The Acheulean items I have been thinking were probably Neolithic, and the two large stone tools Paleolithic, but to be honest, I really have no dea.

If anybody can perhaps shed some light on the subject i would be most grateful.
As I mentioned in another thread, the workmanship of these tools never ceases to amaze me. They are amazing items to hold in ones hand and imagine who, and when they were used and what for. Hopefully, the young lady (9) will think the same.

The large hand tool on the left in the last picture is interestting, as it seems the original maker marked it to identify it as his /hers. After all that work they were not going to let some one else take it!



Thank you for all, and any help!

 

Nice collection. I always love these Stone Age tools, but know next to nothing about them.

Afaik the Acheulean period is early Palaeolithic?

I know I loved them from an early age, so I hope she will too.
Our village was the site of the most important Ahrensburg find of the Netherlands, an engraving of a dancing girl, and there were other bits and pieces to be found occasionally.
My brother found his first stone arrowhead when I was five or so, and I found an unfinished spearhead and a fossilized antler scraper a few years later. I remember the excitement every time we found something like that.

 

Early Paleolithic, wow that is early. I had no idea they migh be that old. They are certainly fascinating items, and I know that the young lady likes looking up and researching her stone and mineral collection on line, so hopefully, she will enjoy researching these items too.
All the items that I have came from a collection from Denmark, but I have no idea of their original provenance unfortunately.
It is an odd feeling, sitting here using a computer, with the light on and listening to a CD playing on the CD player, things that we take for granted today, and in front of me is a stone tool that could be however many thousand or hundred thousand years old. The changes and hands that that tool has been through, and will go through again.....
It doesn't seem that long ago when if you wanted to call someone in another country you had to book the telephone call 24 hours in advance! Now look at us.

 

My knowledge of Paleolithic tools is modest, but none of the ones you show are as old as the Acheulean. Acheulean refers to a time period within the Paleolithic -


https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vauch...xt=With the arrival of Homo,(18 Kya - 12 Kya)

All but one of your tools show the use of grinding/polishing in their fabrication (rubbing stone on stone), a technique that appears in the Neolithic period following the Paleolithic.

 

They could be Danish, I already thought the ones I circled were flint from Jutland:



Flint from different regions looks differently, and I seem to remember these types were from Jutland. But again, I know next to nothing about Stone Age tools, so it is best to check.

 

I am thinking that the little one on the bottom right is also probably Danish. Mayve they all are, as Denmark does have a great deal of tools and weapons from the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras.

 

True. Jutland flint was also traded to other parts of Europe, so they had a lot of it.