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Apr 4, 2024 · Spears and a double-pointed throwing stick were found lying between animal bones about ten meters below the surface in deposits at a former lakeshore. ... Finds at Schöningen show wood was ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Spears from Schöningen in the exhibition at the Forschungsmuseum Schöningen. view more . Credit: Volker Minkus/MINKUSIMAGES, NLD. During archaeological excavations in the Schöningen open-cast ...
Oct 22, 2013 · At the edge of the town of Schöningen and its open-cast lignite mine lies the site of a remarkable, world-famous Stone-Age find: the Schöningen Spears – the oldest complete hunting weapons ever found. It is now also the location of a new and emblematic research and experience centre that is visible from far around.
In archaeology, Schöningen is famous for four ancient wooden spears found in an opencast mine near the town. The spears are about 400,000 years old, making them the world's oldest human-made wooden artifacts, as well as the oldest weapons, ever found. Three of them were probably manufactured as projectile weapons, because the weight and ...
Sep 16, 2020 · The Schöningen spears are a set of eight wooden throwing spears from the Palaeolithic Age that were excavated between 1994 and 1998 in the open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen, Helmstedt ...
Apr 1, 2020 · The manufacturing process of the spears is averred to demonstrate knowledge of the raw material, with the makers preferring slowly-growing spruce (utilized for 9 out of 10 of the Schöningen spears), which grew near the lakeshore environment the butchery site is located in (Bigga et al., 2015, Urban and Bigga, 2015).
May 19, 2020 · Citation: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from Schöningen (2020, May 19) ... Neanderthal hunting spears could kill at a distance. Jan 25, 2019.
