Weapons, Tools and Technology
The Wooden Finds from the Spear Horizon (Schoningen 13II-4)
edited by Dirk Leder, Annemieke Milks, Jens Lehmann and Thomas Terberger
Hardback (Published)
(May 2025)
ISBN: 9783884673782
8.27 x 11.77 inches
Price: $149.00
On back order
The former lakeshore site Schoningen dating to Marine Isotope Stage 9 (c. 300,000 years ago) entails an outstanding environmental archive of the Middle Pleistocene and provides unique insights into past hunter-gatherer lifeways, including the discovery of the first completely preserved wooden weapons of humankind.
Since 2021 a research team has systematically analysed the wooden assemblage from the famous Spear Horizon (Schoningen 13 II-4) with financial support of German Research Foundation (DFG). For the first time, this volume provides an overview of the well-preserved material which is the largest Palaeolithic wood assemblage worldwide. The study brings to light 188 wooden artefacts made of spruce, larch, and pine. A minimum of 25 hunting weapons is recognised including spears, throwing sticks and numerous point and shaft fragments. With a particular focus on woodworking technology and tool recycling, the new findings bear implications for the interpretation of Schoningen as a hunting/butchering site. Moreover, the study allows new insights into human evolution and cognitive capacity c. 300,000 years ago.
- Edited by Dirk Leder
- Edited by Jens Lehmann
- Edited by Annemieke Milks,
- Edited by Thomas Terberger
Similar Books
Archaeological Excavations at Irmis Rka: An Investigation of a Multi-Layered Settlement in Southwest Georgia
Results from the 2020 Season: Early Bronze Age to Medieval Occupations
Catuvellaunia and Rome: Economic and Political Relations during the Final Decades Pre-conquest
The Role of Grain from Southeastern Britain and Its Potential for Maintenance of the Roman Military along the Frontier on the Rhine
Making and Meaning in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Chronology, Landscapes and Societies across Europe. Proceedings from the METALAGES2024 Colloquium (Florence, 23 October 2024)
Nuove scoperte e progressi nelle metodologie di rilievo e analisi dell’arte rupestre post-paleolitica in Italia
New discoveries and progress in the tracing and analysis methodologies of the post-Paleolithic rock art in Italy
Aspects of the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago and Beyond
Proceedings from the Belfast Bronze Age Forum, 9–10 November 2013
Eiszeit – Ice Age
Neue Ergebnisse zum Palaolithikum in Osterreich. New Results on the Palaeolithic in Austria
From the Hunt to the Cave
Neanderthal Subsistence at Kulna Cave during the Middle Palaeolithic Taubachian Phase: Analyses of the Faunal Remains from Level 11
Volume 4
Inheritance, Social Networks, Adaptation
Bronze and Early Iron Age Societies North of the Western Carpathians
Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 6 for 2024
A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers and Borderlands Research
Rituals, Memory, and Societal Dynamics
Contributions to Social Archaeology: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Sharon Zuckerman
Volume 5
