Hand ax from Gerwisch

The hand ax from Gerwisch is considered a particularly beautiful machined hand ax , which based on typological comparisons in the Middle Palaeolithic left lane. The two - sided surface retouched , 12.6 cm long device made of flint is with an age of 200,000 years (according to other data 250,000 years) the oldest hand ax in Saxony-Anhalt .

Location

The hand ax from Gerwisch came in 1957, first in a concrete plant in Dingelstedt ( county Halberstadt ) to light so that a date was excluded. The exact place of origin could only be determined by tracing the load with which the device had reached the concrete plant. Such stone tools are mostly found in the Middle Elbe region during gravel mining , since they are located in layers of sediment below the water table.

Repository

The hand ax is in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle ; a copy was made for the district museum in Genthin .

literature

Thomas Weber : Find place Kiesgrube: The first people in Saxony-Anhalt, two "hand axes" from Wallendorf and Gerwisch , in: Harald Meller (Ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. 120 finds from 120 years of the State Museum for Prehistory Halle , volume accompanying the special exhibition, Halle (Saale) 2001, p. 190 f.
Archaeological treasures in the State Museum of Prehistory, Halle / Saale , State Museum of Prehistory, 1958, p. 6 ("the most beautiful specimen ... in the Elb-Saale area").

Web links

Middle Paleolithic hand ax by Gerwisch , website of the State Museum for Prehistory Halle
The Earliest Tools , Tools from the stone age of Germany , Don's Maps. Resources for the study of Palaeolithic / Paleolithic European, Russian and Australian Archeology / Archeology , Website Don Hitchcock

Remarks

^ Including Herbert Dandl: Work and Profession in the Historical Process , Diss. Dortmund 2006, p. 55.
↑ Volker Toepfer: Gerwisch's hand ax near Magdeburg , Berlin 1959, p. 5ff. and Ders .: Das Acheuléen on the soil of the German Democratic Republic , in: Anthropologie 19 (1962) 5-7.
↑ Writings on Prehistory and Early History 16-17 (1964), p. 7.
↑ The Jerichower Land from A to Z: Alles beg ... , in: Volksstimme, January 7, 2014.

[1] Including Herbert Dandl: Work and Profession in the Historical Process , Diss. Dortmund 2006, p. 55.

[2] Volker Toepfer: Gerwisch's hand ax near Magdeburg , Berlin 1959, p. 5ff. and Ders .: Das Acheuléen on the soil of the German Democratic Republic , in: Anthropologie 19 (1962) 5-7.

[3] Writings on Prehistory and Early History 16-17 (1964), p. 7.

[4] The Jerichower Land from A to Z: Alles beg ... , in: Volksstimme, January 7, 2014.