Schöninger Speere
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The Schöninger Speere are the earliest weapons used by man for hunting purposes are, eight wooden spears discovered between 1995 and 1998 in a surface mine in Schöningen, Germany. According to various sources, they are about 400,000 years old, making them part of human life in the Lower Paleolithic era.
External links
- (German)Die Schöninger Speere – Mensch und Jagd vor 400.000 Jahren – Exhibition website of the Hanover State Museum.
- (German)Projekt Schöningen Office for the care of monuments of the federal state of Lower Saxony.
- (German)Prof. Biegel: Homo Erectus was not a scavenger, Interview from chexx.de, December 2007.
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