Chopper, cast, Šandalja I

Chopper, cast, Šandalja I

The oldest Palaeolithic tools on the European area were manufactured by the upright standing man (Homo sapiens) approximately 900,000 years ago. The tools made of pebbles served the early (primitive) man to be able to sever meat or break bones; the lopping-offs that remained following the manufacturing of tools could be used later for cutting animal hide.

The chopper, found in the site Šandalja I near Pula, could be contemporaneous with the oldest tools of various European sites and represent the oldest trace of human activity on the area of Croatia.