Experimental Study Posits Possible Function of Mesolithic Beveled Tools - Archaeology Magazine

Experimental Study Posits Possible Function of Mesolithic Beveled Tools - Archaeology Magazine

PULLI, ESTONIA—ERR News reports that a new experimental archaeology study may have finally solved a decades-old mystery surrounding a set of bone tools found at the oldest known settlement in Estonia. The Mesolithic site of Pulli was first investigated by archaeologists in the 1960s and 1970s, when teams uncovered a large number of stone, antler, and bone tools that were around 10,000 years old. Nineteen of them were made from elk bone and had d…