Found in a home in a remote village where the family keeps them with a lot respect. Attached to wooden shafts, these tools were probably used 5000 years ago for digging the earth, like modern-day hoes.
There is a chance that the inhabitants of this remore area of the island got back to using stone tools in more recent times, that is between the 15th and the 18th century BC. During that time life in Ikaria was very primitive as a European traveller witnessed on his short visit ca. 1740
Για τα λίθινα εργαλεία που ονομάζουμε «αστροπελέκια» βλέπε και άρθρο στο μπλογκ της Ελένης με τίτλο: «Κεραύνιοι λίθοι»