The Neolithic (New Stone Age) in Belarus came at the end of the 5th millennium BC and lasted about three thousand years. At this time new methods of stone processing (sawing, drilling, grinding), which allowed a person to make more sophisticated and larger tools of labor. In the Neolithic era the number of such tools as adze and chisel increased. Stone chisel with a pointed end age of about 5.5 thousand years is represented in the Museum of Local Lore. Such a product served as a person in the creation of single-trees and wooden household items. At the same time cutting tools spread on the territory of Belarus. Diligently polished stone axes 4-2 thousand BC can be seen in the windows of the Museum of Local Lore. Some axes have neatly drilled holes for attaching the handle. To obtain an even cylindrical hole the animal's tubular bone and wet quartz sand were used. One of the presented axes is not modified by the Mister: on its surface there is only a neat in-depth circle. Stone axes were used not only for cutting forests and shrubs, but also as hammers and wedges for splitting wood. On the territory of Podvinye such finds are also found in the Polotsk region. It was determined experimentally that a primitive man needed about a week to produce a polished silica ax. With such a tool an adult man could cut down a pine tree with a diameter of 25 cm in 15 minutes and in 12 days to hollow out a wooden boat.
