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question

What made it possible to recover the nearly intact finely-made wooden spears from a 300,000-year-old site at Schöningen, Germany?

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history

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  1. The soil was waterlogged and provided conditions that allowed for the preservation of organic material.
  2. The spears were encased in amber, preserving them for thousands of years.
  3. The site was frozen in ice, which preserved the wooden spears.
  4. The wooden spears were placed in a cache of artifacts in plain sight, where archaeologists would eventually find them.
  5. The spears were kept in a dry, desert-like environment, which preserved them.
  6. The wooden spears were fossilized over time, preserving their original form.
  7. The soil was highly acidic and aerobic, which offers excellent preservation for organic artifacts.
  8. The spears were preserved due to the high salt content in the soil.
  9. The spears were coated with a layer of resin which has preserved them.
  10. The wooden spears were covered with dried blood mixed with charcoal and mud, which allows for the preservation of wood.

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ori_mmlu-prehistory

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Source and history

upstream_id / Original problem ID
4969
task_id
9343ee5c-60fd-587d-95e6-dc9b941682eb
task_key
default--test--4969
task_revision_id
1
config / split
default / test

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