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With an age of about 300,000 years, the Schöningen spears are the oldest preserved hunting weapons of mankind to date. With the Forschungsmuseum Schöningen, Thieme's find is presented to interested visitors and experts from all over the world. In the middle of a hunting site archaeologists found more than 10,000 bones of wild horses as well ...
The Schöningen site is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Germany, dating to around 300,000 years ago. It is best known for the Schöningen spears , some of the oldest known wooden spears, found in the "spear horizon", though the site as a whole covers a broader span of time.
The Schöningen spears are a set of ten wooden weapons from the Palaeolithic Age that were excavated between 1994 and 1999 from the 'Spear Horizon' in the open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, Germany. The spears are the oldest hunting weapons discovered and were found together with animal bones and stone and bone tools. Being used by the oldest known group of hunters ...
Apr 1, 2024 · The sophisticated wood artifacts from Schöningen join finds from just a scattering of other sites, such as 476,000-year-old wood joists from Zambia published last year and spears and other tools found elsewhere in Europe. Their scarcity hints that preservation bias distorts archaeologists’ view of the past: Stone tools persist over the ...
Jan 25, 2019 · Most of the wooden spears from Schöningen are tapered at both ends 47 and of those whose maximum diameter locations have been published, the widest diameters are located in the front half 46 ...
Oct 30, 2012 · Dating to approximately 300,000 BC it shows the world’s oldest wooden spear. It was discovered in a deep opencast mine at Schöningen, Germany during an archaeological excavation carried out by Dr. Hartmut Thieme. In total eight of these Palaeolithic spears were recovered during the excavation, along with the bones of at least 15 horses and a ...
