Four tools of the mesolithic/neolithic made from red deer antlers. Dates range from approximately 5000 - 2000 BC. From left (and top) an antler mining pick retreived from a British flint mine. A stone celt hafted into an antler sleeve to prevent splitting in the wood handle,an antler tyne toggle or similar,an antler shaft hole hammer-axe with partly broken cutting edge. Though finds such as bronze,copper and stone survive very well from prehistory it is likley that bone,wood and antler has always been a material used for tools in Europe. Many of such finds come from the Mesolithic period when smaller refined stone tools were being used in combination with antler to produce a sophisticated composite tool-kit of weapons and implements | |
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