Overview of the flint chips from Schöningen, which were created as ’waste’ during the re-sharpening of knife-like tools. They are sorted by size in millimeters. In the middle a scale of 3cm.
Overview of the flint chips from Schöningen, which were created as 'waste' during the re-sharpening of knife-like tools. They are sorted by size in millimeters. In the middle a scale of 3cm. When prehistoric people re-sharpened cutting tools 300,000 years ago, they dropped tiny chips of flint - which today yield evidence of how wood was processed by early humans. The small flint flakes were discovered at the Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen, Lower Saxony. Now, a multidisciplinary team led by the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP) in Tübingen has analyzed this very old material for the information it can provide. The study has been published in Scientific Reports .
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