Upper Paleolithic, 30000BCE
Keilmesser Stone Tool
A Keilmesser is a German classification for Micoquien, the stone tools created by Neolithic peoples. Keilmesser tools are backed stone knives created by flaking off shards of stone to create sharpened edges, typically on both sides of the tool. This Keilmesser was excavated from a neolithic site in Byzovaya, in the western foothills of Russia’s Polar Ural mountains. read more