Ried hand ax

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The Ried hand ax is a heart-shaped hand ax made from local Malmhorn stone , which was discovered in 1952 near Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria . The tool, named after the nearby village of Ried , was dated to the younger or late acheuléen by Lothar Zotz in 1959 .

The hand ax was discovered in September 1952 by the engineer and recreational archaeologist Ludwig Fruth at a depth of almost 8 m, whose collection of minerals and fossils was highly valued by experts at the time. He recovered the tools in the Rucker brickworks in the then independent village of Ried , which is about 1.5 km northeast of the city of Neuburg. The originally greenish-blue-gray stone developed a whitish patina over time. Brown iron inclusions caused a series of yellowish and brownish spots on the surface after the uplift. In 1958, a second hand ax was found by Fruth, who had been walking the brickworks for years.

literature

  • Lothar Friedrich Zotz : A hand ax from Bavaria and its stratigraphic storage. Ried's hand ax , in: Quaternary. Yearbook for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age 10/11 (1958/59) 189–199 ( online , PDF).

Remarks

  1. ^ Lothar Friedrich Zotz: A hand ax from Bavaria and its stratigraphic storage , in: Quaternary. Yearbook for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age 10/11 (1958/59) 189–199, here: p. 199.
  2. ^ Lothar Friedrich Zotz: A hand ax from Bavaria and its stratigraphic storage , in: Quaternary. Yearbook for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age 10/11 (1958/59) 189–199, here: p. 189.