6 Flint-Knapping Site for Tool-Production
Near Immenbeck, in the vicinity of the city of Buxtehude, numerous worked flints were excavated in 1959. They come from a craft site where people made tools from stone 12,000 years ago. The site is located at the edge of the Geest, in a valley sheltered from the wind, open towards the Elbe. Numerous impact marks show that the large stone served as an anvil. It was used as a solid base to cleave off taps and blades from flint nodules with the help of striking stones. The Hammering Place of Immenbeck is the oldest workshop in the Hamburg area.
Info: Showcase 6
Blades
Age: 11.000 - 9500 v. Chr. Palaeolithic period
Palaeolithic period: Even before temperatures rose noticeably at the end of the last ice age, the first reindeer hunters roamed the North German Plain. The open steppe landscape of this time offered a rich supply of huntable game, including reindeer and other steppe animals such as the wild horse. The spear sling served as an important hunting weapon, giving the spear greater range and penetrating power with the leverage used by the thrower. With a warming of the climate and the disappearance of reindeer from Central and Western Europe, the most recent period of the Paleolithic Age ended 10,000 years ago.
Material: Flint
Location: Immenbeck
Hammer
Age: 11.000 - 9500 v. Chr. Palaeolithic period
Palaeolithic period: Even before temperatures rose noticeably at the end of the last ice age, the first reindeer hunters roamed the North German Plain. The open steppe landscape of this time offered a rich supply of huntable game, including reindeer and other steppe animals such as the wild horse. The spear sling served as an important hunting weapon, giving the spear greater range and penetrating power with the leverage used by the thrower. With a warming of the climate and the disappearance of reindeer from Central and Western Europe, the most recent period of the Paleolithic Age ended 10,000 years ago.
Material: Antlers
Location: HH-Neuland
Lithic Core
Age: 11.000 - 9500 v. Chr. Palaeolithic period
Palaeolithic period: Even before temperatures rose noticeably at the end of the last ice age, the first reindeer hunters roamed the North German Plain. The open steppe landscape of this time offered a rich supply of huntable game, including reindeer and other steppe animals such as the wild horse. The spear sling served as an important hunting weapon, giving the spear greater range and penetrating power with the leverage used by the thrower. With a warming of the climate and the disappearance of reindeer from Central and Western Europe, the most recent period of the Paleolithic Age ended 10,000 years ago.
Material: Flint
Location: Immenbeck
Anvil Stone
Age: 11.000 - 9500 v. Chr. Palaeolithic period
Palaeolithic period: Even before temperatures rose noticeably at the end of the last ice age, the first reindeer hunters roamed the North German Plain. The open steppe landscape of this time offered a rich supply of huntable game, including reindeer and other steppe animals such as the wild horse. The spear sling served as an important hunting weapon, giving the spear greater range and penetrating power with the leverage used by the thrower. With a warming of the climate and the disappearance of reindeer from Central and Western Europe, the most recent period of the Paleolithic Age ended 10,000 years ago.
Material: Stone
Location: Immenbeck
Lithic Flakes
Age: 11.000 - 9500 v. Chr. Palaeolithic period
Palaeolithic period: Even before temperatures rose noticeably at the end of the last ice age, the first reindeer hunters roamed the North German Plain. The open steppe landscape of this time offered a rich supply of huntable game, including reindeer and other steppe animals such as the wild horse. The spear sling served as an important hunting weapon, giving the spear greater range and penetrating power with the leverage used by the thrower. With a warming of the climate and the disappearance of reindeer from Central and Western Europe, the most recent period of the Paleolithic Age ended 10,000 years ago.
Material: Flint
Location: Immenbeck