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World’s oldest wooden spears in Schöningen revisited
The world’s oldest complete wooden hunting weapons are 200,000 years old, not 300,000 as previously thought.
The multiproxy
Archaeological data tend to complement each other and can add more layers of knowledge for the interpretation of the past. The results from one method also add insights where preservation conditions for one type of data is lacking. For example, insects provide information about environments beyond that which pollen from wind-pollinated plants can provide. Vice versa plant macrofossils provide information about the use of plants where the presence of pollen is limited. By the addition of multiple layers of archaeological information, the modelled past offers a wider view of the past and paints a picture with more detail.
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