The Vogelheimer Klinge (German: Vogelheim Blade) is an approximately 280,000 year old
flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and sta ...
tool, discovered in 1926 during the construction of the
Rhine-Herne Canal in Vogelheim, north of the city of
Essen. In older publications it is also known as the Klingenschaber von Vogelheim. It was long considered to be the oldest accurately dated artifact in
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
and can be found in the
:de:Ruhr Museum.
[Harald Polenz: ''Götter, Gräber, Grubengold. Archäologie im Ruhrgebiet'', Klartext, 2000, p. 45.]
References
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:de:Detlef Hopp: ''Essen Vogelheim – die Vogelheimer Klinge'', in: H. G. Horn: ''Neandertaler + Co.'', von Zabern, Mainz 2006, S. 145–147.
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Gerhard Bosinski,
:de:Michael Baales, Olaf Jöris, Martin Street,
:de:Thorsten Uthmeier: ''Arbeiten zum Paläolithikum und zum Mesolithikum in Nordrhein-Westfalen'', in:
:de:Heinz Günter Horn (ed..): ''Fundort Nordrhein-Westfalen. Millionen Jahre Geschichte'', Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Köln 2000, S. 91–102, hier: S. 91.
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Primitive technology
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