Meppen-Nödike's residence
The living space of Meppen-Nödike is named after the geological findings in the Younger Dryas , so the late Paleolithic , and thus into the Ahrensburg culture to classify. The range of basic shapes and tools also speak in favor. The residential area was discovered in 1975 while the road was being built in the Nödike district .
In the area of a road embankment, the recovery produced 422 artefacts . During the excavation carried out in 1978, parts of a residential area were uncovered on an area of about 100 m², where a further 343 flint artifacts were recovered. The discovery horizon, exposed at a depth of around 0.7 m, lies in the sand of an old dune area and is underlain by a soil formation dated to Alleröd . Of the inventory consisting of 765 pieces of flint, 2.4% is scratched , i.e. H. provided with cracks. In addition to tees , blades and debris, it also contains 26 cores , but only a few tools such as scrapers and burins .
During the reconstruction, 140 artefacts (18.3%) could be put back together again to original units for the first time in a Lower Saxony find inventory. Their - and the distribution of other artefacts - on the living space indicate activity zones through which the previously known space can be divided into two areas. In 1987/88 a further 320 m² could finally be examined, in which more than 1000 artefacts were recovered. The find scatter encloses a circular, empty area three meters in diameter. A tent layout may be hidden behind it.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Häßler (Ed.): Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0 , p. 481