Hand ax from Hochdahl

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The Hochdahl hand ax is a stone tool dated to more than 250,000 and up to 340,000 years ago , which was discovered near Hochdahl , Mettmann district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Therefore it is ascribed to the epoch of Homo heidelbergensis . The hand ax is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and is one of the oldest tools in North Rhine-Westphalia. Jürgen Richter assigned it to the tools that were made before the invention of the Levallois technique .

Animal remains were discovered in 1927 in a quarry on the left bank of the Düssel near Hochdahl. The hand ax is one of the artifacts that H. Reim excavated there in 1928. The remains of the fauna allowed a maximum backdating to the Holstein complex . The hand ax is made of quartzite .

literature

  • Ralf-W. Schmitz: Investigations in the neighborhood of the Neanderthal man: the loess profile of Hochdahl , in Archäologie im Rheinland 1991, p. 19 f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ A picture can be found here .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Richter : The Palaeolithic in North Rhine-Westphalia , in: Heinz Günter Horn (Ed.): Neanderthals + Co. on the trail of ice age hunters - forays through the prehistory of North Rhine-Westphalia , Mainz 2006, pp. 93–116, here: p 99
  3. ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher 151–152 (1951), p. 6.
  4. ^ Gerhard Bosinski : Neandertal , in: Gerhard Bosinski , M. Street, M. Baales (eds.): Quaternary Field Trips in Central Europe. International Union for Quaternary Research, XIV International Congress, August 3-19, 1995 , Volume 2, Pfeil, Berlin 1995, p. 977.
  5. ↑ Ralf-W. Schmitz: The Old and Middle Palaeolithic of the Neandertal and neighboring areas , dissertation, Cologne 1995, based on: Archäologische Informations 18/2 (1995) 283–285, here: p. 283, doi: 10.11588 / ai.1995.2.17522 .