European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse I the prehistoric treasures of Wuerttemberg by Henry b. Kraft staff writer Ceramic urns 5,000 years old were used by prehistoric race for storing Grain Ater. Stone age War god space age Soldier. Stone hand axes were the first implements made by prehistoric Man. Hand wrought swords represent various Early eras of Mankind. Curator Schroeder right Ihori visitor ancient pottery. My it courtyard of the Wuerttemberg Lande museum in Stuttgart Thi foam 9tripi5 sp4 i Juwence i Moran inspects a display of Bronze a0 Metal ornaments Widne Foy a get 19, 1959 eighty thousand years ago in the Hills caves of Wuerttemberg a Man went looking for food. He was shorthand heavy set his hair coarse matted he was almost naked in one hand he held a Ciiab in the Othera Al tone which he had sharpened so that it Cotile Cut he had yet to learn to bore whole into that Stone fashion a handle so that he could use it As an a he knew nothing about fire the discovery of the wheel was thousands of years Stone was a fearsome weapon in his hands. He used it for Hunting As an instrument of warfare. A creature of thes Tohe age More beast than Man he lived his dangerous often Short life in the Hills of Wuerttemberg Germany As did counterparts of his in other areas of the world at that time. Scores of millenniums had passed him by the world stood still so far As his Progress toward civilization was concerned. But that he lived in what is now Wuerttemberg How he lived is told in hundreds of relics in the Wuerttemberg land Esmus Eum in. Stuttgart Germany where the evolution of the prehistoric Man is revealed by the weapons he used the things he created. The exhibits show the inherent instinct to kill. Before he Learned the natural Laws of Mankind or How to get along with his neighbors in other caves Man of murder. Or. Manfred Schroeder curator of the prehistoric museum Section believes that while most of the Stone relics Are known to be 80,000 years old there May be some in the collection that go Back 600,000 years. One showcase contains the oldest Stone weapons used by the Caveman in Germany which indicate that he May also have used them to Cut meat or fashion Kitchen utensils. Many exhibits show the slow evolution of Early Man in his struggle to sur Vive. They Tell How he began to shape smaller sharper instruments some from Wood for household purposes. As the millenniums passed perhaps in the Ach Eulean period when he first Learned How to use fire he also began to see Beauty in other living things about him. Then he began to carve from Stone Ivory the Birds in the air the beast that roamed All about him. But he began to see this Beauty Only after he had passed from the palaeolithic into the pre Shellean or Ach Eulean age when he Learned not Only to improve on Flint but to design tools like the hand a undoubtedly one of his greatest Steps to Ward civilization. The museum has some of the Art created by the prehistoric Man of Wuerttemberg. There Are reproductions of a lion Bison Reindeer Bear wild horse the Mam Moth perhaps the Mastodon which was two to three times the size of an elephant. While the male of the species was de fending his Cave Hunting for food with his knife of Stone his woman seems Mohave taken time out from Kitchen chores to make herself More attractive. Like her Sisters of today she admired costume jewelery. So she made necklaces ear rings of Ivory Stone. Examples of these too Are in the museum. All of the items on display portray the evolution of Man from 80,000 years a Fate the Christian Era into what Schroeder de scribed As the Middle Stone by then the relics show men had emerge from the caves began to inhabit the shores of lakes Rivers. They had Learned How to make tiny harpoons of Stone to Spear fish in the museum Are three Clay urns made in Wuerttemberg about the time of Abraham in Chaldea. They Are believed to be5,500 years old to have been used for water or Grain. It was also about this Tim that women in Wuerttemberg were learn ing How to grind Corn on slabs of Stone using a Sandstone to rub Pound the Grain. These Are also on exhibit. The Man of Wuerttemberg did no know it at the time but in Assyria Egypt Judeah Israel Persia Greece the Bronze age had Long since Given Way tothe Iron age. He was at least a thousand years behind the times. / the exhibits show that in those Ger manic Days the tribes had started fashion ing jewelery from Copper were using Copper bracelets As Money. Arrowheads spearheads Bronze swords from 3,000 to 3,500 years old Many Are carefully pre served Are in the museum. Great vases bowls of Clay found i Wuerttemberg which Date Back to 750 . Are also on exhibition. Another Sec Tion features similar articles 3,500 years old. The Early Iron age in Wuerttemberg misrepresented in weapons jewelery from 750-600 . During this period the Back Ward germanic tribes had Learned to dec orate urns platters. But at that Tim greek geniuses like phidias were already creating statues of Stone Marble an monuments to their gods. There Are two exhibits in the museum showing How the Wuerttemberg Man tried to do the same thing around 600 . Pieces of pottery even buckets which Schroeder believes were found in the Graves of germanic tribal leaders rein the museum. Those Graves also yielded bracelets pins rings earrings necklace Sand circlets like crowns mostly of Gold. In the huge collection Are stones Trace Able to Druid worshippers. One such Stone May have been a sacrificial altar the other is a two headed statue like those of the roman god Janus. There is doubt that the statue is that of Janus As the Roma influence had not reached Germany at the time the statue is supposed to have Bee created. Several rooms Are filled with exhibit which Trace Man s cultural advancement in Europe through More than 100 millennium Sand reach the Apex of germanic culture up to 500-600 . Jewelry pottery Glass Wood weapons prove that the germans of that Tim had finally caught up with roman mideastern culture. Is photos by Guenter Schuettler the stars stripes Page 13
