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Schöningen

Findspot of the oldest complete wooden hunting spears, alongside butchered horse. Long dated to 300,000-400,000 years; a 2025 study instead argues for about 200,000.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 348,000 years ago disputed
  Original stratigraphic and thermoluminescence dating of the spear horizon: 300,000-400,000 years source
• about 198,000 years ago disputed
  A 2025 amino acid geochronology redating places the spears at about 200,000 years, implying Neanderthal manufacture source

Where

52.1372° N, 10.9883° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12063642/

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