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Zes benen retouchoirs van Mauern (Duitsland)

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  • Dick Stapert
  • Lykke Johansen
  • Robert Kosters
  • Wietske Prummel
  • Inger Woltinge

Samenvatting

Six bone retouching tools from Mauern (Germany). Six bone retouching tools from Mauern (Ger­many), excavated by A. Bohmers in 1937­1939, are briefly described. They come from Micoquian and/or Leafpoint levels in the Weinberg Caves, and were used as percussion implements in the shaping of flint tools such as leafpoints and scrapers. Two of these derive certainly, and two others probably, from aurochs, and another from horse (three of the bones are femora, one is a tibia and another a metacarpus). All retouching tools will be dated at the Centre of Isotope Research of the University of Groningen. One date is available already, for no. 1946.I.982; GrA­44676: 36,180 +260/­240 BP. This date falls in the first phase of the colonisation of Europe by Homo sapiens.

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2010-12-17

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