Various Keilmesser and a simple backed knife (top right) from the Neanderthal period 60,000 to 44,000 years ago, from the Sesselfelsgrotte cave near Kelheim (G-complex, excavations by Prof. Freund, FAU [Credit: D. Delpiano, UNIFE]
Posted on 09/01/2020 7:48:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The two researchers investigated artefacts from one of the most important Neanderthal sites in Central Europe, the Sesselfelsgrotte cave in Lower Bavaria...
'The technical repertoire used to create Keilmesser is not only direct proof of the advanced planning skills of our extinct relatives, but also a strategical reaction to the restrictions imposed upon them by adverse natural conditions,' says Uthmeier, FAU professor for Early Prehistory and Archaeology of Prehistoric Hunters and Gatherers.
What Uthmeier refers to as 'adverse natural conditions' are climate changes after the end of the last interglacial more than 100,000 years ago. Particularly severe cold phases during the following Weichsel glacial period began more than 60,000 years ago and led to a shortage of natural resources. In order to survive, the Neanderthals had to become more mobile than before, and adjust their tools accordingly.
The Neanderthals probably copied the functionality of unifacial backed knives, which are only shaped on one side, and used these as the starting point to develop bi-facially formed Keilmesser shaped on both sides. 'This is indicated in particular by similarities in the cutting edge, which consists in both instances of a flat bottom and a convex top, which was predominantly suited for cutting lengthwise, meaning that it is quite right to refer to the tool as a knife,' says Davide Delpiano from UNIFE.
Both types of knife - the simpler older version and the newer, significantly more complex version - obviously have the same function. The most important difference between the two tools investigated in this instance is the longer lifespan of bi-facial tools. Keilmesser therefore represent a high-tech concept for a long-life, multi-functional tool, which could be used without any additional accessories such as a wooden handle.
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Geometric morphological analyses of 3-D models of scanned tools showed that the stone tools found in the Chagyrskaya cave were very similar to artefacts from the Micoquien, which is the name given to the corresponding stone tool industry in Central and Eastern Europe. The comparative scans originate among others from find sites in Bavaria including FAU's own Sesselfelsgrotte cave, in which most of the artefacts used in the comparison were found.
The researchers were able to reconstruct the route of migration of the Siberian Neanderthals using DNA analyses of Neanderthal bones and sediments from the Chagyrskaya cave. The route led the groups during the course of several generations via Croatia and the North Caucasus to the Altai.Several groups of Neanderthals migrated to SiberiaThe DNA analyses also showed that the Neanderthals from the Chagyrskaya cave differ significantly in terms of their DNA from a second Altai group found in the Denisova cave. This discovery fits with the observation that the Denisova Neanderthals were apparently not familiar with tools from the Micoquien. The research team therefore presumes that several groups of Neanderthals migrated to Siberia.Siberian Neanderthals originated from various European populations [2/29/2020]
Neanderthals had SUVs?
They made sure their SUV tires were properly inflated?
There was no American middle class to spew noxious carbon out into the atmosphere. How could there be climate change?
Damn less than a minute...
Electric horses?
So simple, a caveman can do it.
[Sputnik] Researchers from Siberian Federal University (SibFU) and the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of SB RAS have discovered ancient artefacts during excavation works in the Ust-Kova area of the Krasnoyarsk region. According to the scientists, some of the artefacts, which are more than 24,000 years old, indicate that the ancient inhabitants of Siberia had a high level of technological development and sophisticated religious views. This suggests that the region was a major centre of civilization in the Paleolithic era... Drozdov said that having processed microscopic images of a mammoth figurine made from a large ivory fragment, the researchers managed to restore the ivory processing technology used by ancient craftsmen... Archaeologists plan to conduct a detailed study of the composition of the paints used for rock art. The researchers said that among the other artefacts found in Ust-Kova are of great interest as well. Among them is an 18,000 year-old graphic image of a horse made on a mammoth tusk plate, the first one of its kind seen in Siberia. Siberian Federal University
Historically people have been able to adjust to changes in their environment. There were significant migrations happening about every 600 years way back when. People and animals are capable of changing their ways, often nimbly, moving, planting different crops, building different homes.
What doesn’t adjust well or nimbly are governments. They are based on the status quo and will fight anything that threatens its hegemony and tradition. So governments endanger their population by their unwillingness to adjust and work with nature instead of against it. Right now governments are trying to be the Little Dutch Boy at the dike, holding back the sea. It won’t end well for governments or those who trust them.
If you turn it upside down it looks like a 2 hump camel.
Surely, they quit using plastic bags and straws which is why none are found by the archeologist.
Boy does that bring back memories.
Neanderthal kw selections:
How they adapted to “climate change”????
I don’t see any neanderthals walking around any more.
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