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Upper Palaeolithic (28,000 – 24,000 years ago)

This scraper fashioned from flint was found together with numerous ice age animal remains (woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros) in a former Spardorf clay pit.  It is thought to have been used for processing animal hides.

The position of these finds at a depth of several meters within a deposit of windborne fine rock dust (loess) indicates the great changes the landscape was exposed to during the last ice age – one of the reasons why artefacts from this period are so hard to find.

Another reason for the rarity of evidence of ice age hunters lies in their way of life: the exhaustion of the natural resources (plants and animals) they exploited forced them into a nomadic way of life.