Die sensationellen Speerfunde aus Schöningen werden in Bauart und Leistungsfähigkeit experimentell untersucht. Der Homo heidelbergensis vor 400.000 Jahren war zur Gruppenjagd auf Großwild fähig. Dabei halfen ihm Speere, die sowohl von der Wurfweite, als auch von der Zielsicherheit und der Eindringtiefe her den heutigen Speeren ebenbürtig sind. Es zeichnet sich eine Kulturgeschichte des Werfens ab mit den Kapiteln Jagd, Krieg und Sport.
Results are reported for 3 groups of healthy male probands, 318 in each group, matched for age and personality type on the Personality-Stress Questionnaire. One group was actively engaged in sports, one had discontinued former sporting activities, and one group had never taken part in regular sports. Follow-up after 13 yr. showed lowest mortality in those actively engaged in sport, highest mortality in those who had given up sport, with those who had never been engaged in sport intermediate. Prophylactic behaviour therapy was shown to reduce mortality of those who had given up sport to a significant extent but not to affect degree of retinal sclerosis.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.