A Leaf Point Documents Hunting with Spears in the Middle Paleolithic at Hohle Fels, Germany
Journal: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte
Year: 2021

During the 2020 season at Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern Germany the excavation team from the University of Tübingen recovered a bifacial leaf point in archaeological horizon (AH) X. This horizon is the fifth deepest of the Middle Paleolithic horizons at the site and is located roughly 120 cm beneath the base of the rich Aurignacian layers of the cave. The new leaf point, or Blattspitze in German, is the first artifact of its kind found in situ in the Swabian caves since Gusta