Thieme H
Niedersächsisches Landesverwaltungsamt, Institut für Denkmalpflege, Hannover, Germany.
Nature. 1997 Feb 27;385(6619):807-10. doi: 10.1038/385807a0.
Little is known about the organic component of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic technologies, particular with respect to wooden tools. Here I describe some wooden throwing spears about 400,000 years old that were discovered in 1995 at the Pleistocene site at Schöningen, Germany. They are thought to be the oldest complete hunting weapons so far discovered to have been used by humans. Found in association with stone tools and the butchered remains of more than ten horses, the spears strongly suggest that systematic hunting, involving foresight, planning and the use of appropriate technology, was part of the behavioural repertoire of pre-modern hominids. The use of sophisticated spears as early as the Middle Pleistocene may mean that many current theories on early human behaviour and culture must be revised.
对于旧石器时代早期和中期技术的有机组成部分，尤其是木制工具，人们了解甚少。在此，我描述一些约40万年历史的木制投掷长矛，它们于1995年在德国舍宁根的更新世遗址被发现。它们被认为是迄今为止发现的人类使用过的最古老的完整狩猎武器。这些长矛与石器以及十多匹马的屠宰残骸一同被发现，有力地表明，涉及远见、规划和使用适当技术的系统狩猎是前现代人类行为模式的一部分。早在中更新世就使用复杂的长矛，这可能意味着许多当前关于早期人类行为和文化的理论必须被修正。
