Stone tools
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The last glacial period in northern and north-central Europe was known as the Weichselian or Vistulian glaciation and ended around 10 000 B.C. Better climatic conditions permitted settlement in this zone, including Pomerania through the first Mesolithic (10 00 – 5 400 B.C.) of nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes. The main section of the tools they used was made of stone e.g. hatchets, axes, arrows and spears with stone tips. Such tools were made of field stones and flint of organic origin containing dissolved invertebrate skeletons – the spicules of silicious sponges.