Paleolithic site on Hohenholz
The Paleolithic site at Hohenholz is a late Paleolithic site in Steinhude in Lower Saxony . It was an outdoor station for seasonally settled hunters and gatherers . During an excavation in 1954, around 185 Stone Age artefacts made of flint were found. The inventory of the site suggests that it belongs to the pen knife groups from around 11,000 BC. Chr.
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The site is located on the edge of the Hohes Holz forest area southeast of Steinhude. It is located at 64 m above sea level. NHN on a knoll in the Wunstorfer Geest . In the immediate vicinity on the edge of the forest is the Steinhude Jewish cemetery and not far from the Hohenholz waterworks, where there is an information board about the Paleolithic site. The shoreline of the Steinhuder Meer is about 3 km away. The site was discovered in 1954 during sand mining.
The finds were recovered at a depth of one meter and in an area of 1.6 × 1.6 meters. In addition to stone chips, the finds include 26 stone tools such as blade scrapers, burins and pieces with end retouching . More detailed statements on the settlement area are not possible due to the improper recovery of the finds. Archaeologists assume that the site was a small and briefly inhabited camp site for reindeer hunters, probably only for one hunting season.
The place of discovery goes into the warm phase of the Alleröd around 11,000 BC. Until the Younger Dryas Period around 10,000 BC. Classified. During this time the first humans came to the northern European lowlands after the last ice age reached its maximum around 20,000 BC. Had reached.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Häßler : Wunstorf: Steinhude (Hohenholz). Site of the late Upper Paleolithic. in: Prehistory and Early History in Lower Saxony , Stuttgart, 1991
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '24.7 " N , 9 ° 22' 57.8" E