Ertebølle

Refers to a tool making industry named for a site at Ertebølle, Denmark and evident in northern Europe from about 9,000 to 3,500 BCE. It is classified as Mesolithic rather than Neolithic because it is characterized by chipped, rather than polished, stone tools, and because the people were primarily hunters and fishers rather than agriculturists. However, the culture was partially contemporaneous with Neolithic industries of central Europe, and it demonstrated Neolithic achievements, including the creation of kitchen middens, pottery, chisel-shaped arrowheads, flat and radial techniques for working flint, and limited agriculture and stock raising.