HALABELLA | Ancient Human Bone Weapons @halabella6 | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
A study showed, weapons carved from human bone come from drowned land bridge between UK and Europe. Now, stone Age hunters crafted sharp weapons out of human bone about 11,000 years ago and these hunter-gatherers lived in Doggerland, a now-underwater region in the North Sea that connected Europe to Britain. At the end of the last ice age, when sea levels were lower, it was inhabited by herds of animals and humans. Although these people are long gone, artifacts from their culture, including bone weapons, often wash ashore in the Netherlands.
For more than 8,000 years, distinctive weapons—slender, saw-toothed bone points—made by the land’s last inhabitants rested at the bottom of the North Sea. That was until 2oth-century engineers, with mechanical dredgers, began scooping up the seafloor and using the sediments to fortify the shores of the Netherlands. The ongoing work has also, accidentally, brought artifacts and fossils from the depths to the Dutch beaches.
With over 1,000 bone weapons found in the area these weapons were not something to be written off within this ancient culture. Along this vein, warriors in New Guinea chose human bone for some of their daggers. Because the daggers were made of human bone, they were said to retain the strength and power of its previous owner. This made them prized objects and significant to their possessors, and a more ceremonial object.
Back to the topic, an analysis of 10 of these bone weapons revealed that eight were carved from red deer bone and antlers, and two were crafted from human bone. Study lead researcher Joannes Dekker, a Master's student of archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, told Live Science said "We expected to find some deer, but humans? It wasn't even in my wildest dreams that there would be humans among them,"
While it might sound useful enough, human bone would’ve been a bit of an inconvenience for our ancestors. It’s rarer than materials from animals, and more brittle too, needing to be harvested shortly after death before it becomes far too brittle to be worked with. This suggests a different significance outside of killing deer, more towards a sentimental or spiritual onethan functional
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A study showed, weapons carved from human bone come from drowned land bridge between UK and Europe. Now, stone Age hunters crafted sharp weapons out of human bone about 11,000 years ago and these hunter-gatherers lived in Doggerland, a now-underwater region in the North Sea that connected Europe to Britain. At the end of the last ice age, when sea levels were lower, it was inhabited by herds of animals and humans. Although these people are long gone, artifacts from their culture, including bone weapons, often wash ashore in the Netherlands.
For more than 8,000 years, distinctive weapons—slender, saw-toothed bone points—made by the land’s last inhabitants rested at the bottom of the North Sea. That was until 2oth-century engineers, with mechanical dredgers, began scooping up the seafloor and using the sediments to fortify the shores of the Netherlands. The ongoing work has also, accidentally, brought artifacts and fossils from the depths to the Dutch beaches.
With over 1,000 bone weapons found in the area these weapons were not something to be written off within this ancient culture. Along this vein, warriors in New Guinea chose human bone for some of their daggers. Because the daggers were made of human bone, they were said to retain the strength and power of its previous owner. This made them prized objects and significant to their possessors, and a more ceremonial object.
Back to the topic, an analysis of 10 of these bone weapons revealed that eight were carved from red deer bone and antlers, and two were crafted from human bone. Study lead researcher Joannes Dekker, a Master's student of archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, told Live Science said "We expected to find some deer, but humans? It wasn't even in my wildest dreams that there would be humans among them,"
While it might sound useful enough, human bone would’ve been a bit of an inconvenience for our ancestors. It’s rarer than materials from animals, and more brittle too, needing to be harvested shortly after death before it becomes far too brittle to be worked with. This suggests a different significance outside of killing deer, more towards a sentimental or spiritual onethan functional
#ancienthumans #boneweapons #ancientweapons
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Merch - youtube.com/channel/UCzT0u6iEmBk-OPCPIO9teUA/store
Cell it - youtube.com/channel/UC9K4wXpPnALVp_0ESsnzwMg
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