According to the The Iceman, the Iceman’s use of his copper-bladed ax does not seem consistent compared to the rest of his gear. For example, it is said that he carried “small flint tools,” indicating that all of his gear was created out of sharpened flint stones, such as his flint-tipped arrows, his flint knife, and his tool for sharpening such flints. Although most of his tools were made out of flint stones, his ax was an anomaly, being made out of a new material, copper. This indicated the budding of the age of metals between the people of the time of the Iceman.
