ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Federmesser

Federmesser is a special type of tool used by ancient people a long long time ago. Imagine if you wanted to make something out of wood, like a toy or a bowl, but you didn't have any fancy machines or tools like we have today. That's where the federmesser comes in.

A federmesser is made out of rock called flint. This rock is special because when you hit it with something hard, like another rock, it breaks into really sharp pieces. The ancient people would take a big rock and hit it against the flint to break it into the shape they wanted.

The federmesser looks kind of like a knife, but it's smaller and thinner. It's also really sharp! The ancient people used it to cut things like meat or wood. They would hold the federmesser in their hand and carefully cut whatever they needed to.

Nowadays, we have all kinds of machines and tools that can do the same things a federmesser could do, but it's still really interesting to learn about how people did things a long time ago with just rocks and their own strength.