Die ersten Schotten: Hamburger!
Verfasst: 16.04.2014 07:09
Ein interessanter Fund aus Schottland (Biggar in South Lanarkshire), auf den ersten Blick typische Flintgeräte und Geschoßspitzen der spätjungpaläolithischen Hamburger Kultur:
Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of the presence of humans in Scotland with an assemblage of over 5,000 flint artefacts which were recovered in 2005-2009 by Biggar Archaeology Group in fields at Howburn, South Lanarkshire. Subsequent studies have dated their use to 14,000 years ago.
Prior to the find, the oldest evidence of human occupation in Scotland could be dated to around 13,000 years ago at a now-destroyed cave site in Argyll, northwest Scotland.
Similar to finds from northern Germany and southern Denmark
Dating to the very earliest part of the late-glacial period, Howburn is likely to represent the first settlers in Scotland. The flint tools are strikingly close in design to similar finds in northern Germany and southern Denmark from the same period, a link which has helped experts to date them.
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php ... f-scotland
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/04/ar ... and/102796
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and ... /art475720
Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of the presence of humans in Scotland with an assemblage of over 5,000 flint artefacts which were recovered in 2005-2009 by Biggar Archaeology Group in fields at Howburn, South Lanarkshire. Subsequent studies have dated their use to 14,000 years ago.
Prior to the find, the oldest evidence of human occupation in Scotland could be dated to around 13,000 years ago at a now-destroyed cave site in Argyll, northwest Scotland.
Similar to finds from northern Germany and southern Denmark
Dating to the very earliest part of the late-glacial period, Howburn is likely to represent the first settlers in Scotland. The flint tools are strikingly close in design to similar finds in northern Germany and southern Denmark from the same period, a link which has helped experts to date them.
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php ... f-scotland
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/04/ar ... and/102796
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and ... /art475720