Quarzitschlagplatz Vossküppel
The quartzitschlagplatz Voßküppel near Bühren is in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony , about one kilometer north of the village. In the clearing on the northeast slope one can find an agglomeration of stone blocks made of tertiary quartzites . The gray stone was used in the Stone Age for the manufacture of stone tools because of its relatively good machinability . The material used for the striking site was dated to the end of the Paleolithic Age (10,000 BC) through comparisons of form and the lack of the so-called Levallois technique .
archeology
At places where quartzite comes to the surface, are often discounts to be found. It was therefore assumed that there were old quarries here. In the middle of the 20th century the archaeological importance of the quartzite deposit on Vossküppel was recognized. In 1957 the teacher and home nurse Fritz Bertram Jünemann started an excavation. An area of 26 m² was uncovered, which corresponded to a funnel-like kettle.
Quartzite blocks lay beneath a layer of sand that had been washed in, and many of them showed signs of processing. Between them one found tees, core stones and stone tools. Below this position, at a depth of 70–100 cm, the excavator came across the quartzite that had shattered due to weathering processes in small and very small clods. The blocks visible above were part of a continuous rock unit .
The excavation findings give a picture of the activities on the stone blocks at Vossküppel. In order to get to the lower stone layers, the covering sand had to be dug up. The quartzite pieces obtained had been processed on the spot. Usable pieces were taken away. The waste and unusable equipment remained in the pit. The fact that the underlying material was recovered is a question of quality. Surface parts of quartzite are, like flint, less suitable for processing.
Field name Vossküppel
The name Vossküppel ( Voss - Küppel ) refers to fox burrows on the sandy slopes of the basalt knoll.
See also
Nearby are the altar stones at Dransfeld , another quartzite outcrop used in the Stone Age.
literature
- Fritz Bertram Jünemann: The quartzite strike point on the Vossküppel near Bühren. In: Urgeschichtliche Bodendenkmalspflege in the Münden District, Annual Report No. 7, 1957, pp. 2–10; Hann. Münden
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Quarzitschlagplatz on the Vossküppel , p. 10–12, in: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanation of the field names on the notice board set up at the field
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 9 ° 40 ′ 12.1 ″ E