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Spoons, along with knives, forks and chopsticks are generally lumped together as eating implements or cutlery.

In the earliest days people ate with their hands but hot cooked foods soon made this uncomfortable and difficult (especially for soups). People improved on this using cupped pieces of bread or seashells to scoop up saucy or fluid foods and knives or sharp twigs to spear the lumps. Forks came much later as lump spearers and lifters while knives were limited to cutting larger lumps into smaller. Chopsticks evolved on their own apart from western eating tools. The spoon drifted through this period essentially unchanged.

Vikings were pretty much in the "use your fingers for big chunks, knifes to spear and hold hot chunks and spoons for the liquids" phase of table manners. Their spoons would be made of horn or metal or carved from wood. A set of instructions for making your own Viking wooden spoon starting with a log is at the link.

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