EEN HALVE VUISTBIJL VAN HEMELUM IN GAASTERLAND (FR.)

• Main Authors: Stapert, Dick, Johansen, Lykke
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Dutch
• Published: Groninger Instituut voor Archeologie 2002
• Subjects: Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://ugp.rug.nl/Paleo-aktueel/article/view/36446

A basal fragment o f a handaxe was found near Hemelum in the province of Friesland. The rounded base has a cutting edge; however, the implement as a whole makes an unfinished im­pression. lt may have broken along a hidden frost crack during manufacture. The findspot is locatedon the lower slope of one of a series of ice-pushed moraine hills that surround the glacial basin of Gaasterland. The landscape was sculpted by the Saalian ice-sheet, during a stationary phase in its retreat to the north. The heavily weathered hand­axe cannot be dated more precisely than to the Eemian or the first half of the Weichselian. lt is quite possible that the Neanderthals who left be­hind this tool lived along the shores of lakes that must have been present in the basin during the Eemian and parts of the Weichselian.