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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.
21 de jun. de 2022 · The Schöningen spears are eight wooden spears found between 1994 and 1998 in the Schöningen open pit lignite mine in the district of Helmstedt. It is best to book a hotel room to visit. These spears are with more than 400,000 years the oldest completely preserved throwing and hunting spears in the history of mankind and have a ...
Significance. Wooden tools rarely survive in the Paleolithic record limiting our understanding of Pleistocene hunter-gather lifeways. With 187 wooden artifacts, Schöningen 13 II-4 provides the largest assemblage worldwide introduced here for the first time in full.
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 site of Schöningen represents an outstanding testimony of past human culture and creativity 300,000 years before present. Schöningen is the best preserved site of early human history and has produced the oldest, completely preserved hunting weapons known to humankind.
The Schöningen spears are among the most important archaeological finds worldwide. They are the oldest completely preserved wooden weapons in human history and revolutionized our picture of the first humans in Central Europe.
25 de ene. de 2019 · The site of Schöningen (Germany) dates to ca. 300,000 BP and has yielded at least 10 complete and nearly complete wooden spears, most of which are made of slow-growing spruce 46,47.
