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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487489 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 21:15:06 UTC Not a bola or an arrow straightener. Hint #1: Even in the bronze age this was still in use.... ID: 1487489 ·
Luigi Naruszewicz Send message Joined: 19 Nov 99 Posts: 620 Credit: 23,910,372 RAC: 14	Message 1487524 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 22:36:14 UTC Loom weight ? . A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing. ID: 1487524 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487526 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 22:38:43 UTC Last modified: 11 Mar 2014, 22:39:52 UTC Nope! Edit: Hint #2: some had handles..... ID: 1487526 ·
Luigi Naruszewicz Send message Joined: 19 Nov 99 Posts: 620 Credit: 23,910,372 RAC: 14	Message 1487534 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 22:55:10 UTC hammerstone - for use in making flint tools. . A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing. ID: 1487534 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487557 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 23:34:51 UTC No cigar..... Hint #3: Even little kids used this tool....... ID: 1487557 ·
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4	Message 1487562 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 23:42:36 UTC to chop veggies or meat ? ID: 1487562 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487563 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 23:44:19 UTC El cold O! Hint #4: Used in Europe ..... ID: 1487563 ·
Luigi Naruszewicz Send message Joined: 19 Nov 99 Posts: 620 Credit: 23,910,372 RAC: 14	Message 1487570 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 0:25:02 UTC nut cracker . A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing. ID: 1487570 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487573 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 0:45:35 UTC hammer I have checked my word association book and 'hammer like' is a word that could be used for this tool. But it is not a carpentry tool, but it was used to hit something. Hint #5: Was a necessary tool before and during the bronze age ...... ID: 1487573 ·
John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1487577 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 0:58:14 UTC used to break ice? BOINC WIKI ID: 1487577 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487603 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 2:15:30 UTC Used to break something much harder than ice.... Hint #6: Think extraction..... ID: 1487603 ·
John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1487629 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 3:30:05 UTC Used for breaking bones to get the marrow out? BOINC WIKI ID: 1487629 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487634 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 3:40:00 UTC No, not for food or stone age dentistry ...... Hint #7: to make the bronze age/copper age possible........ ID: 1487634 ·
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20	Message 1487647 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 4:05:44 UTC Last modified: 12 Mar 2014, 4:07:03 UTC Extracting - a diging tool, like a shovel? Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired ID: 1487647 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487648 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 4:13:41 UTC a diging tool Used in the same, not a shovel.... It has a name, and is used in a certain occupation... Hint #8: What is the other tool that goes with a shovel, and what was its stone age name..... ID: 1487648 ·
John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1487667 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 4:51:07 UTC It looks as if it is hafted because of the ring around it. BOINC WIKI ID: 1487667 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1487825 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 14:54:43 UTC hafted, mason.... Yes hafted except when used by small children. A mason would use the same name as the first users of this tool used. Please reread hint #8..... ID: 1487825 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1488013 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 20:49:41 UTC Come on people, all you need now is where it was used and what it was called, read the clues closely.... ID: 1488013 ·
Luigi Naruszewicz Send message Joined: 19 Nov 99 Posts: 620 Credit: 23,910,372 RAC: 14	Message 1488017 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 21:08:51 UTC Is it a maul for for breaking down the copper ore prior to smelting ? . A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing. ID: 1488017 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1488020 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 21:15:47 UTC - in response to Message 1488017.   Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner! Way to go Luigi. Maul or Bronze Age mining tool from Alderley Edge. You tell by the size of the tunnels in the copper mines that it must have been small kids who did the work..... PM is on the way. Good win, thanks to all for playing. ID: 1488020 ·

 
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