{"product_id":"weapons-tools-and-technology","title":"Weapons, Tools and Technology","description":"The former lakeshore site Schöningen dating to Marine Isotope Stage 9 (c. 300,000 years ago) is an outstanding environmental archive of the Middle Pleistocene and provides unique insights into past hunter-gatherer lifeways. The extraordinary discovery of the first completely preserved wooden weapons of humankind represents a hallmark of prehistoric research that considerably changed our perspective on early hominins. Since 2021 a research team has systematically analysed the wooden assemblage from the famous Spear Horizon (Schöningen 13 II-4) with financial support of German Research Foundation (DFG). For the first time, this volume provides an overview of the well-preserved material which is the largest Palaeolithic wood assemblage worldwide. The study brings to light 188 wooden artefacts made of spruce, larch, and pine. A minimum of 25 hunting weapons is recognised including spears, throwing sticks and numerous point and shaft fragments. With a particular focus on woodworking technology and tool recycling, the new findings bear implications for the interpretation of Schöningen as a hunting\/butchering site. Moreover, the study allows new insights into human evolution and cognitive capacity c. 300,000 years ago.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510066717045,"sku":"9783884673782","price":112.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/weapons-tools-and-technology","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}