Ahrensburg tanged point

The Ahrensburg tanged point found in Koszalin-Rokosowo in unknown circumstances in 1939 comes from the former collection of Pommersches Landesmuseum. The tanged point, an arrowhead, was made from a small blade, i.e., an elongated fragment has broken off an appropriately shaped flint lump. Only the top side was retouched, which means that it should be associated with the Ahrensburg culture. It was removed from the arrow as the edges were severely damaged by use due to its small size and thus the impossibility of repair. Depending on their size, tanged poins twere used as spearheads, javelins and arrows. They are distinctive wares of communities representing archaeological cultures with tanged points found throughout the North European Lowlands at the end of the last glaciation. The Ahrensburg culture (together with the Sviderian culture) is the younger of these. In the younger Dryas, the people of that culture mainly inhabited open tundra and parkland tundra, the border zone of forests, and rare birch-pine forests in the Preboreal period. The tanged point should be dated to c. 10800-9000 BC.

Michał Adamczyk