Hand ax from poisons

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The hand ax from Gifte is a 14.2 cm long hand ax with a massive base, which was discovered in 2017 in the Lower Saxony district of Hildesheim . The device was lifted in a dump in the gravel works near Giften , a village and district of Sarstedt , after which the hand ax got its name. The device was discovered by the volunteer collector Wolfgang Bauer. It was developed by Utz Böhner based typological features and the surrounding geological strata in the Middle Palaeolithic dated.

The only thing missing from the hand ax is the point that was broken off in the course of the gravel mining, otherwise it is in such good condition - especially the edges and ridges are very well preserved - that it is assumed that it was never relocated. Although the context cannot be reconstructed, it is certain that the gravel layer of the lower terrace was deposited during the Vistula glaciation. In contrast, both the deposits of the Leine from the last warm period and the layers from the Saale cold period are located in the area of ​​the central terraces in the hanging wall . A dating to the Old Paleolithic can therefore be excluded.

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  1. ↑ Utz Böhner: Hand ax from the gravel , in: Archeology in Germany 06 | 2017, p. 51.