 Some funerary objects from the largely unexplored transitional period between the Mesolithic to Neolithic period (around 5200BC) were also discovered.Several Neolithic ax blades were discovered across the municipal area, with a concentration at Dachsenhöhle and Kleinen Höhle am Hohlefels that were excavated in 1952–1954 by Martin Herkert, Bernhard Hesse, and Andreas Schwabe.In the Kleinen Höhle, skeletal remains of children with grave goods as well as a typological flint spear points were also found.