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A bifacial tool of the Neanderthals from Ameland, the Netherlands∙

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2014

D. Stapert ,
L. Johansen  and
M.J.L.Th. Niekus
D. Stapert*
Affiliation:
Ossewei 6, 9751 SC Haren, the Netherlands
L. Johansen
Affiliation:
Ossewei 6, 9751 SC Haren, the Netherlands
M.J.L.Th. Niekus
Affiliation:
Lopendediep 28, 9712 NW Groningen, the Netherlands
*
Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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A bifacially worked flint tool has recently been found on the North Sea beach of Ameland, one of the Wadden Islands in the northern Netherlands. It probably dates from the Middle Palaeolithic because its surface modifications include windgloss which in this area originated especially during the Weichselian Late Pleniglacial. The tool was probably first worked by a skilled knapper and subsequently, after a break occurred, by an apprentice. It is suggested that the tool was transported to Ameland from the North Sea bottom in the course of sand replenishment activities. Other artefacts from the Wadden Islands allegedly left by Neanderthals are also briefly discussed.

Keywords

Middle PalaeolithicWadden Islandsnatural surface modificationsdatingapprentice flintknappers
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 92 , Issue 2-3 , September 2013 , pp. 181 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2013

Footnotes

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In: Mulder, E.W.A., Jagt, J.W.M. & Schulp, A.S. (eds): The Sunday's child of Dutch earth sciences - a tribute to Bert Boekschoten on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

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