Hand tip
The hand-tip (also Moustérien spike called english rush-work weaving ) is a flat, generally oblong sometimes wide permeated, from a larger reduction produced with a flat, generally triangular cross-section device from the large group of tips .
In contrast to the two-sided hand axes , it is mostly only retouched on one side and both sides of the point are slightly concave. The hand tip is a universal device for drilling, cutting, scraping and pricking. It is assigned to the Neanderthal and is particularly widespread in the Middle Paleolithic in Europe and the Orient and disappeared with the extinction of the Neanderthal. Finds come from e.g. B. from the Sirgenstein cave between Blaubeuren and Schelklingen in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg and from the so-called "Schaalsee culture" of Schleswig-Holstein or the Neffeltal in North Rhine-Westphalia .
literature
- Elise Baumgärtel: Neolithic stone tools in the form of types from the older Paleolithic. In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift . tape 19 , no. 3-4 , January 1928, pp. 101-109 , doi : 10.1515 / prhz.1928.19.3-4.101 .
- Friedrich-Karl Bicker: The origin of the European Homo sapiens in the light of new tool finds . In: The natural sciences . tape 27 , no. July 27 , 1939, p. 463-469 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01489436 .
- Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42125-3 , p. 171.