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Stone Age Summer Camp Uncovered In German Opencast Mine

Avatar09:26 PM, February 5th 2007
by News Staff

Among stone tools
collected were a one-sided stone knife, serrated blades, blanks and
hundreds of stone chips.

Thissen said it looked as if the camp was used only briefly during a
summer hunting expedition. The climate at the time was similar to that
in today's Mediterranean. The site is about 60 kilometres east of
Belgium's Neanderthal campsites at Veldwezelt.

© 2007 DPA

On Feb 6, 9:36 am, Roger Lee Bagula <rlbagulat...@yahoo.com> wrote:

http://www.playfuls.com/news_004470_Stone_Age_Summer_Camp_Uncovered_I...
Stone Age Summer Camp Uncovered In German Opencast Mine

Avatar09:26 PM, February 5th 2007
by News Staff

[...]

Among stone tools
collected were a one-sided stone knife, serrated blades, blanks and
hundreds of stone chips.

Thissen said it looked as if the camp was used only briefly during a
summer hunting expedition. The climate at the time was similar to that
in today's Mediterranean. The site is about 60 kilometres east of
Belgium's Neanderthal campsites at Veldwezelt.

© 2007 DPA

Fascinating stuff. I'd sure like to get a peek at those tools...
Thanks, Roger. Does this sound out of place somehow? I
didn't think backed blades were that early....? Pete?

On Feb 6, 9:36 am, Roger Lee Bagula <rlbagulat...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.playfuls.com/news_004470_Stone_Age_Summer_Camp_Uncovered_I...
Stone Age Summer Camp Uncovered In German Opencast Mine

Avatar09:26 PM, February 5th 2007
by News Staff

[...]

Among stone tools
collected were a one-sided stone knife, serrated blades, blanks and
hundreds of stone chips.

Thissen said it looked as if the camp was used only briefly during a
summer hunting expedition.
The climate at the time was similar to that
in today's Mediterranean. The site is about 60 kilometres east of
Belgium's Neanderthal campsites at Veldwezelt.

© 2007 DPA

Fascinating stuff. I'd sure like to get a peek at those tools...
Thanks, Roger. Does this sound out of place somehow? I
didn't think backed blades were that early....? Pete?

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Posted by: "maria guzman" mir...@3rivers.net pelarg
Tue Feb 6, 2007 4:14 pm (PST)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,464574,00.html
DIGGING UP THE PAST
Stone Age Camp Found In Germany

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 120,000-year-old Stone
Age hunting camp in a coal mine in Germany. It is a find of great
European importance, researchers say.

Open-cast coal mines may get a bad press, but in Germany they're still
big business -- the country is the world's largest producer of lignite,
or brown coal. Now another advantage of open-cast mines has been
discovered -- they can conceal a rich seam of archaeological sites.

Archaeologists have discovered over 600 stone tools at the
120,000-year-old site.
Zoom
DPA

Archaeologists have discovered over 600 stone tools at the
120,000-year-old site.
Archaeologists have found the remains of a 120,000-year-old Stone Age
hunting camp in an open-cast lignite mine near Inden in the German state
of North Rhine-Westphalia.

"We'll never find such a camp ever again," archaeologist Jürgen Thissen
from the Rhineland Commission for Historical Sites said in Bonn Monday.
"There isn't another one in the whole of Germany."

He added that the find was the first of its kind in the region, and was
of European importance.

Thissen and his assistants came across postholes of three shelters in
the open-cast mine last August. Two fireplaces with traces of fires were
also found, as were over 600 stone tools and the stone chips left over
from their production. Among the stone tools found were a stone knife,
serrated blades, and so-called "blanks" (pieces of stone ready to be
shaped into tools).

A hand ax was discovered in the mine in December 2005, prompting a full
excavation. The team of archaeologists used the mine's mechanical shovel
to remove 30,000 tons of soil, laying bare 3,000 square meters of ground
that had last been exposed during the Eemian or Sangamon interglacial
era which lasted from 128,000 to 117,000 B.C.E. approximately.

According to Thissen, the camp would have been used temporarily by one
or more groups of hunters and gatherers during a summer hunting
expedition. The climate in northern Germany at the time would have been
similar to the Mediterranean today.

News of the sensational new find comes just a week after the
announcement that a prehistoric village had been found near Stonehenge
in southern England. That village dates back only to 2,600 B.C.E.,
however -- practically newly built in comparison to the Stone Age camp.

dgs/dpa

This link was posted in an yahoo egroup:
Posted by: "maria guzman" mir...@3rivers.net pelarg
Tue Feb 6, 2007 4:14 pm (PST)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,464574,00.html
DIGGING UP THE PAST
Stone Age Camp Found In Germany

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 120,000-year-old Stone
Age hunting camp in a coal mine in Germany. It is a find of great
European importance, researchers say.

Open-cast coal mines may get a bad press, but in Germany they're still
big business -- the country is the world's largest producer of lignite,
or brown coal. Now another advantage of open-cast mines has been
discovered -- they can conceal a rich seam of archaeological sites.

Archaeologists have discovered over 600 stone tools at the
120,000-year-old site.
Zoom
DPA

Archaeologists have discovered over 600 stone tools at the
120,000-year-old site.
Archaeologists have found the remains of a 120,000-year-old Stone Age
hunting camp in an open-cast lignite mine near Inden in the German state
of North Rhine-Westphalia.

"We'll never find such a camp ever again," archaeologist Jürgen Thissen
from the Rhineland Commission for Historical Sites said in Bonn Monday.
"There isn't another one in the whole of Germany."

He added that the find was the first of its kind in the region, and was
of European importance.

Thissen and his assistants came across postholes of three shelters in
the open-cast mine last August. Two fireplaces with traces of fires were
also found, as were over 600 stone tools and the stone chips left over
from their production. Among the stone tools found were a stone knife,
serrated blades, and so-called "blanks" (pieces of stone ready to be
shaped into tools).

A hand ax was discovered in the mine in December 2005, prompting a full
excavation. The team of archaeologists used the mine's mechanical shovel
to remove 30,000 tons of soil, laying bare 3,000 square meters of ground
that had last been exposed during the Eemian or Sangamon interglacial
era which lasted from 128,000 to 117,000 B.C.E. approximately.

According to Thissen, the camp would have been used temporarily by one
or more groups of hunters and gatherers during a summer hunting
expedition. The climate in northern Germany at the time would have been
similar to the Mediterranean today.

News of the sensational new find comes just a week after the
announcement that a prehistoric village had been found near Stonehenge
in southern England. That village dates back only to 2,600 B.C.E.,
however -- practically newly built in comparison to the Stone Age camp.

dgs/dpa

Hand-adze or hand axe? Dug-out chisel? How far from river-lake?
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