Last stone tool using culture/ethnic group of Europe

[Black Wolf]

Which culture or ethnic group in Europe was the very last to use stone as their main resource for making tools? Was it the Saami people? Anyone know?

[Rædwald]

Which culture or ethnic group in Europe was the very last to use stone as their main resource for making tools? Was it the Saami people? Anyone know?

Saami people more typically used knives made from bone, arrow heads found were made from iron. I assume soon after they traded with Euro's for iron after some time.

[Amud]

I once read a theory that the use of metal contributes to dysgenics. Although it must have taken an incredible flash of genius for somebody to realize that you could heat ores to refine them and then shape them into tools, once that was discovered it's not very hard to do. If you know how to use metal and have the tools to work with it, it is much easier to make a nice sharp blade from metal than it is from stone. This meant that dumb people could become craftsmen, start a family, and pass on their genes.

The first parts of Europe to use metal were Southern Spain and Bulgaria. I suppose we can make our own conclusions about what that implies.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

I once read a theory that the use of metal contributes to dysgenics. Although it must have taken an incredible flash of genius for somebody to realize that you could heat ores to refine them and then shape them into tools, once that was discovered it's not very hard to do. If you know how to use metal and have the tools to work with it, it is much easier to make a nice sharp blade from metal than it is from stone. This meant that dumb people could become craftsmen, start a family, and pass on their genes.

The first parts of Europe to use metal were Southern Spain and Bulgaria. I suppose we can make our own conclusions about what that implies.

First metal use goes back to serbia, and it's the first metal use anywhere.

Metalworking is actually one big reason the saxons became something more than an obscure footnote of history. It may be easy to make a flimsy iron sword which is the main reason the iron age took off, but pattern welding and similar techniques take a master craftsman. Even today the imitators can't get it quite right, and they have advanced tools like giant steel press to do the hard parts for them.

Where dysgenics came is is from conquering too many retards and integrating them into society and allowing them to outbreed the conquerers. Which happened with the persians, the spanish and now us.

[Äijä]

Which culture or ethnic group in Europe was the very last to use stone as their main resource for making tools? Was it the Saami people? Anyone know?

More likely is that Saami actually spread as metal workers and traders.

[Äijä]

Saami people more typically used knives made from bone, arrow heads found were made from iron. I assume soon after they traded with Euro's for iron after some time.

Saami are Euros, they have been for millenias.