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The Paleolithic site at Hohenholz is a late Palaeolithic site in Steinhude in Lower Saxony. It was an outdoor station for seasonally sedentary hunter-gatherers. A 1954 excavation unearthed around 185 Stone Age flint artifacts. The inventory of the site speaks for affiliation to the Federmesser groups from around 11,000 BC.

The site is on the edge of the Hohes Holz forest area, southeast of Steinhude. It is located at 64 m above sea level. NHN on a hilltop in the Wunstorfer Geest. In the immediate vicinity at the edge of the forest is the Steinhude Jewish Cemetery and not far from the Hohenholz waterworks, where there is an information board about the Palaeolithic site. The shoreline of the Steinhude Sea is about 3 km away. The site was discovered in 1954 during sand mining.

The finds were recovered at a depth of one meter and in an area of ​​1.6 × 1.6 meters. In addition to stone chips, the finds include 26 stone tools, such as blade scrapers, gravers, and pieces with end retouching. More detailed statements about the settlement site are not possible due to the improper recovery of finds. The archaeologists assume that the site was a small and briefly inhabited camp by reindeer hunters, probably only for one hunting season.

The site is dated to the warm phase of the Alleröd around 11,000 BC. to the Younger Dryas period around 10,000 BC. classified. During this time, the first people came to the northern European lowlands after the last ice age reached its maximum around 20,000 BC. had reached.