Vogelheimer blade

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The Vogelheimer Blade , a tool dated around 280,000 years ago, was discovered in 1926 when the Rhine-Herne Canal , or a port, was being built in Vogelheim , in the north of the city of Essen . The blade is made of flint and is 8.3 cm long. In older publications it was also called Vogelheim's blade scraper . It was long considered the oldest definitely dated artifact in North Rhine-Westphalia and is in the Ruhr Museum , the former Ruhrland Museum . The hand ax from Bad Salzuflen is now considered to be older and was thought to have been made 300,000 to 350,000 years ago.

The blade was in the loess below the ground moraine of the Saale glaciation near a former stream; the glaciation of the Essen area took place around 250,000 years ago, so the tool had to be older. In the reports of Ernst Christian Justus Kahrs (1876–1948), the first director of the Ruhrland Museum from 1914 to 1945 , there are references to bone fragments and burned material, which, however, were hardly taken into account. They suggest a camp where a group of early Neanderthals carved up their prey.

literature

  • Detlef Hopp : Essen Vogelheim - the Vogelheimer blade , in: HG Horn: Neandertaler + Co. , von Zabern, Mainz 2006, pp. 145–147.
  • Gerhard Bosinski , Michael Baales , Olaf Jöris , Martin Street, Thorsten Uthmeier : Work on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in North Rhine-Westphalia , in: Heinz Günter Horn (Hrsg.): Fundort Nordrhein-Westfalen. Millions of years of history , Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne 2000, pp. 91–102, here: p. 91.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Jürgen Richter: Conscious geometric design in Homo heidelbergensis? Work step analysis on a hand ax from Bad Salzuflen (Ostwestfalen-Lippe) , summary on the website of the Leibniz Research Institute for Archeology of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, full article in: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 43,1 (2013).
  2. ^ Ernst Kahrs: The Diluvium of the Emscher area and its paleolithic cultural remains , conference report of the German Anthropological Society 49 (1927) 61–68.
  3. ↑ Michael Baales: Settlement remains of the Neanderthal man from the bone pebbles of Lippe and Emscher , in: Georg Eggenstein (Hrsg.): Mensch und Fluss. 7000 years of friends and enemies , Kamen exhibition catalog. Bönen 2010, pp. 34–42.
  4. ↑ Harald Polenz: Gods, Graves, Mine Gold. Archeology in the Ruhr Area , Klartext, 2000, p. 45.