Get to know the world’s oldest Swiss knife

Quoted by the livesins; This Neolithic tool, with a wooden handle attached to the blade, shows that the humans of that period used a bunch structure to ease their stone knives. The end hole in the handle is also likely to be used to hang the tool and carry it easier.

This knife was found in a settlement related to PFYN culture. The people of this culture (2 to 5 BC) residential areas of Bavaria to northern Switzerland were known for their houses built on waltics and lakes.

The Wangen-Hinterhorn settlement was first recognized in the year 6, when a farmer discovered it in the shallow area of ​​Lake Constance, was recognized; But extensive archaeological excavations were carried out in the 1980s and 1980s.

The people of PFYN Culture settled around Lake Constance around the year 5 BC. They built their homes on local wooden beams and lived in livestock and farming. However, they probably did not stay in the same place; Archaeologists have found evidence of frequent residences over a millennium. The works discovered in this wetland environment show that PFYN people were also involved in the manufacture of textiles and the production of copper objects.

Archaeologists have found several other wooden -fraction tools attributed to PFYN culture, including a wooden dagger with a 2-5 BC (which is also held in the museum) and a knife discovered in the 1980s, and its grains in bitumen are used in food. Although these traces of seeds show that they may have been used for food preparation, no more information is available on their exact use.