The years between 2800 and 2000 BC are , in the continent, called The Copper Age.
This was obviously a time when copper was most abundant in this parts.

While flint, among other rock kinds, were concurrently found among the settlements of man at this times once would have to transport metals from far away places which were most times found in uninhabited maintain areas.
This led to the development of specialised knowledge on metallurgy, as was the case for the people of the Carpathians, who became quite wealthy and culturally a central point because of this.
Because copper was so difficult and costly to produce it did therefore not become every-man’s first choice.

Therefore the late-Neolithic era’s flint weapons dominated and were inspired by their metallic-counterparts.

With an exquisite technique flint masters of this time imitated, down to the smallest, the desirable metal objects that were imported such as daggers, spear heads, sickles, arrow heads and axes.
This would lead to the culmination of the Nordic Stone Age flint technique.

To imitate the shine found on the metallic object the surface of the flint tools would be worked to perfection by a pressure or smoothing technique, sometimes called parallel cutting, where a wave pattern was created over the weapons surface with parallel rows shipped off from both sides.


One of the most prominent status symbols for a man back then was then was the flint dagger, which burial finds have shown many times. This piece was worn at the waist.
Under the influence of the metal daggers imported from the continent the flint counterparts passed though a stage of development that took them from the simple spear shape to a more elaborated design with a fish-tail handle.

The development in technique used in this area led to south Scandinavia to become a centre for the vast production of flint daggers.