Silex tip from Weimar-Ehringsdorf

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The Weimar-Ehringsdorf flint tip is a tip made of Baltic flint , which was discovered at the Ehringsdorf site in Thuringia by the sculptor Walter Sachs in 2014. The site has been known for more than a century for the “ Ehringsdorf prehistoric man ”, who can probably be addressed as Neanderthals . The flint tip is 5.1 cm long, 2.6 cm wide and only an inch thick. Its dorsal side has a circumferential retouching step , which is very steep on the straight side. On the back, the globe , which allows conclusions to be drawn about the striking technique , has been slightly worked on; the dorsal edge of the base shows a fine, likewise steep retouching. There is no evidence of a shift in the sediment , so the site is considered undisturbed. Accordingly, the tip could be up to 230,000 years old.

Travertine mining site in Ehringsdorf, 2005

The undamaged condition of the Middle Paleolithic piece, however, contradicts the prevailing assumption that the intermediate horizon is the result of extensive rearrangement processes between the two main phases of travertine formation . The 14 m thick lower travertine, now freed from the upper layers, is assumed to be 230,000 years old. The dating of the above-mentioned layers above, the so-called Paris horizon (also known as the Paris layer) and the upper travertine, is controversial and the corresponding attempts differ by up to 100,000 years.

literature

  • Tim Schüler: New finds from the Parisian layer of the travertine of Weimar-Ehringsdorf , in: Excavations and Finds in the Free State , Vol. 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2007.

Remarks

  1. Tim Schüler: Middle Palaeolithic Silex Point is a riddle , in: Archeology in Germany 05 | 2016, p. 57.