17 Facts About Alfred Rust

Alfred Rust was a German prehistoric archaeologist.

Alfred Rust was hard working and passionate about prehistory, drawing the attention and kindness of his teachers.

Alfred Rust discovered, with the help of his friend and some local laborers, one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in the Middle East.

Alfred Rust was encouraged by the pre-historian Gustav Schwantes, who was self-taught in his youth.

Alfred Rust showed that groups of hunter-gatherers frequented the tundra stretching to the foot of the huge glaciers that covered northern Europe during the Ice Age.

Alfred Rust found numerous flint tools and carved stone, wood or bone weapons.

Alfred Rust discovered the bones of sacrificed animals, especially deer, found intact except for a large stone which was placed intentionally in the thorax of each animal.

In Stellmoor, a site representative of the Ahrensburg culture, by studying the weapons and their traces on the bones of game Alfred Rust brought to light that the weapons and mode of hunting had evolved from the spear with a large blade to the smaller arrows made of pine with sharp points.

Alfred Rust deduced that these different types of weapons matched a different hunting technique : the spear was powerful but imprecise and gave way to bow and arrows used in stalking, probably oriented thin by over-hunting and climate change.

Alfred Rust was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel on 1 June 1940.

Alfred Rust had to yield to the entreaties of Wolfram Sievers and he joined the "Institute of ancestral heritage," which allowed him to escape conscription.

Alfred Rust was a member of the research department for prehistory and worked on other tools of the Paleolithic.

Alfred Rust worked with the archaeologist Gustav Steffens in a series of excavations conducted on the "Stufe" of Altona, near Wittenberg, and made important work on othercultures.

Alfred Rust continued his prospecting in the Holy Land where she had individualized Natufian culture in 1928, had excavated a site in Lower Galilee.

For its participation in the Ahnenerbe, Alfred Rust suffered criticism in his later years.

Alfred Rust was made honorary doctorate in 1940 from the University of Kiel.

The baton decorated with a reindeer antlers discovered by Alfred Rust appears in the arms of the city, under the representation of the castle.