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Die Universität Tübingen und die Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung haben am 20. April 2020 die Entdeckung eines 300.000 Jahre alten Wurfstocks bekannt gegeben. Dieses hölzerne Objekt, publiziert in Nature EE , zeigt Anzeichen von Verarbeitung und Spuren der Verwendung als Jagdwaffe. Diese Entdeckung ist nicht nur eine Sensation, sondern auch das Ergebnis sorgfältiger Erforschung der Gebrauchsspuren (in Kooperation mit Veerle Rots von der Universität Lüttich).

Dieser neue Fund trägt dazu bei, unseren Wissenshorizont über die Schaffung und den Gebrauch der ersten Waffen der Menschheit in Altpaläolithikum zu erweitern.

Conard, N.J., Serangeli, J., Bigga, G., Rots, V. 2020. A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0Entdeckung eines 300.000 Jahre alten Wurfstocks | Published on Apr 20, 2020


Entdeckung eines 300.000 Jahre alten Wurfstocks

1 posted on 04/26/2020 6:49:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

When was the monolith? They were throwing bones back then.


2 posted on 04/26/2020 6:56:54 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s about time that dog brought back the stick!


3 posted on 04/26/2020 6:57:34 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They were not using these to harvest “healthy grains”, etc.

Carnivore, for the win!


8 posted on 04/26/2020 7:09:45 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Experiments show that throwing sticks of this size reach maximum speeds of 30 meters per second.”

That’s not the 3000 ft/sec you’d get out of today’s AR...but I sure wouldn’t want to get hit by a stick traveling at 30 meters/sec.


10 posted on 04/26/2020 7:14:03 AM PDT by moovova
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To: SunkenCiv

There is not the slightest chance that wood survives, buried, in wood form, 300,000 years. They need to revise their dates by a lot.


15 posted on 04/26/2020 7:59:07 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: SunkenCiv

That reminds me of the old joke.

Q: What so you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
A: A stick.


16 posted on 04/26/2020 8:03:21 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: SunkenCiv
Awww, Mom, rabbit again?

That's all your good for nothing father could hit with his stick today, so hush up and eat!

26 posted on 04/26/2020 1:31:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv
Cool article.

Wonder if they will find any atlatls?

37 posted on 04/26/2020 6:12:35 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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