The first people to arrive in the territory of Lithuania came from the south-west, from the present area of Germany and Poland, after much of the world was already inhabited. This happened more than ten thousand years ago, once the glaciers had retreated and nature started to flourish. Isolated nomadic communities slowly appeared in the green valleys of young rivers. There people found flint which was necessary for making tools, and they were attracted by young forests containing game and edible plants.

The first groups of inhabitants made hunting arrows in several ways, thus archaeologists consider them to be carriers of different traditions. They lived by the wisdom of their ancestors, making objects for daily use by applying techniques passed on over thousands of years. People of the Stone Age removed fat from animal skin with rounded scraper blades, cut meat with cleavers, and performed other tasks with sharpened sticks, awls, knives and axes in their nomadic lives.

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