 In 2010 N.K.Anisjutkin discovered Oldowan flint tools at Bayraki that are 800,000–1.2 million years old.During the Neolithic stone-age era, Moldova's territory stood at the centre of the large Cucuteni–Trypillia culture that stretched east beyond the Dniester River in Ukraine and west up to and beyond the Carpathian Mountains in Romania.