![]() This mixture was called bronze and is referred to as the bronze age which lasted until the discovery of iron, approximately five thousand years later. When mixed with tin, it was found to be hard enough to make tools, including knives and hatchets. Stone Age HandaxesĪpproximately 10,000 years ago, copper was discovered as an easy metal to melt. ![]() As man advanced to making pottery, sewing clothing, and tilling grains, he still used stone, bone, and wood for his tools. These early impliments were used for chopping, cutting, scraping, and sawing (some had jagged edges) and were found throughout England, Europe, Asia, and North America – over a hundred thousand years ago. ![]() A lump of flint was hacked into chips to make a hatchet the size of a man’s hand. Axes were among the earliest tools of man found in the Ice and Stone Age. ![]()
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