Schinderkuhle site
The Mesolithic find site Flayer Kuhle in Westercelle , in Lower Saxony is one of the classic Mesolithic sites in northwest Germany. It is located southeast of Celle on an elongated late ice age dune ridge near the Fuhse . The teacher Wilhelm Lampe from Harriehausen collected around 40,000 stone artefacts here during the First World War and published the Schinderkuhle in 1922 as the first Mesolithic site in Lower Saxony.
The find material was distributed over the dune over a length of 500 m and a width of 40 m and contained numerous microliths that belong to the older and younger phases of the Mesolithic. The older forms belonging to the boreal include broad, equilateral and unequal triangles, as well as triangular and trapezoidal points. The more recent phase of the Schinderkuhle ( Atlantikum ) includes long, narrow triangles, small triangles and various shapes of squares, which played an important role in the elaboration of the Boberger stage of the late Mesolithic in north-west Germany. Between 1999 and 2009, Werner Krebs discovered around 5000 other flint artefacts along the Fuhse near Altencelle.
literature
- Wilhelm Lampe: On the Stone Age settlement of the Aller area . In: Nachrichtenblatt für Lower Saxony's Prehistory 3, 1922, pp. 1–36.
- Heiko Steuer : The Schinderkuhle near Celle . In: Cellesche Zeitung - anniversary edition 150 years. No. 78 / 151st volume / Tuesday, April 4, 1967.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '26.1 " N , 10 ° 5' 12.4" E