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Humans
and saber-toothed tiger met in Germany 300,000 years ago
Humans
and saber-toothed tiger met in Germany 300,000 years ago
Date:
April 1,
2014
Source:
Universitaet Tübingen
Summary:
Scientists excavating at the Schöningen open-cast coal
mine in north-central Germany have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed cat
preserved in a layer some 300,000 years old -- the same stratum in which wooden
spears were found, indicating that early humans also inhabited the area, which
at that time was the bank of a shallow lake.
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Scientists
of the Lower Saxony Heritage Authority and of the University of Tübingen
excavating at the Schöningen open-cast coal mine in north-central Germany have
discovered the remains of a saber-toothed cat preserved in a layer some 300,000
years old -- the same stratum in which wooden spears were found, indicating
that early humans also inhabited the area, which at that time was the bank of a
shallow lake.
The
discovery sheds new light on the relationship between early humans and beasts
of prey. It is highly likely that humans were confronted by saber-toothed cats
at the Schöningen lakeside. In that case, all the human could do was grab his
up to 2.3m long spear and defend himself. In this context, the Schöningen
spears must be regarded as weapons for defense as well as hunting -- a vital
tool for human survival in Europe 300,000 years ago.
Officials
from the Lower Saxony heritage authority and archaeologists from the
Universities of Tübingen and Leiden uncovered a first tooth of a young adult Homotherium
latidens in October 2012. Measuring more than a meter at the shoulder and
weighing some 200kg, the saber-tooth was no pussycat. It had razor-sharp claws
and deadly jaws with upper-jaw canines more than 10cm long.
The find
shows that the saber-toothed cat died out later in central Europe than
previously believed. Along with the sensational wooden spears, the same level
has yielded bones and stone tools indicating that early humans -- probably Homo
heidelbergenis -- hunted horses and camped along a 100m stretch of the
lakeside.
The new
finds demonstrate that a long time before anatomically modern humans, Homo
sapiens sapiens have reached Europe some 40,000 years ago, early man was
able to defend himself against highly dangerous animals with his weapon
technology. The results of the researchers' study have just been published in a
report by the Lower Saxony heritage authority, the Niedersächsisches Landesamt
für Denkmalpflege.
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Universitaet Tübingen. "Humans
and saber-toothed tiger met in Germany 300,000 years ago." ScienceDaily.
ScienceDaily, 1 April 2014.
<www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140401112022.htm>.
