A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schoningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting

被引:43
作者
Conard, Nicholas J. [1 ,2 ]
Serangeli, Jordi [1 ,2 ]
Bigga, Gerlinde [1 ]
Rots, Veerle [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tubingen, Dept Early Prehist & Quaternary Ecol, Tubingen, Germany
[2] Univ Tubingen, Senckenberg Ctr Human Evolut & Paleoenvironm, Tubingen, Germany
[3] Univ Liege, TraceoLab Prehist, FRS FNRS, Liege, Belgium
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
SOUTH; SITE; BOOMERANG; FRAGMENT;
D O I
10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
The poor preservation of Palaeolithic sites rarely allows the recovery of wooden artefacts, which served as key tools in the arsenals of early hunters. Here, we report the discovery of a wooden throwing stick from the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Schoningen that expands the range of Palaeolithic weaponry and establishes that late Lower Palaeolithic hominins in Northern Europe were highly effective hunters with a wide array of wooden weapons that are rarely preserved in the archaeological record. The German site of Schoningen preserves rare examples of Palaeolithic wooden artefacts. Here, a 300,000-year-old spruce wood implement is interpreted as a throwing stick on the basis of microscopic use-wear analysis.
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页码:690 / 693
页数:4
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