Studies on the intriguing rhino spear are still ongoing but this remarkable find - seen as having considerable archeological significance - was shown to Vladimir Putin on his recent visit to Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic.
The spear tip, almost 90cm in length and seemingly still sharp enough to kill, was found on the island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky, off the northern coast of Siberia, as researchers hunted for remains of woolly mammoths.
'This year we found a spear made of woolly rhino horn and if all the information is confirmed, it will be the northernmost point where a human implement was found - three degrees latitude further north than we had known before,' explained Semyon Grigoryev, Director of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum at Northeastern Federal University.
Quelle:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/others ... ic-island/
Erinnert an den mehr als doppelt so alt datierten Fundplatz Yana RHS, auch sehr hoch im Norden und auch mit einem Vorschaft aus Wollnashorn und anderen wunderbaren Funden:
http://archaeology.about.com/od/upperpa ... -Ivory.htm
Wie biegt man Horn grade? Mit Hitze allein?
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