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    Schöningen is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is located on the southeastern rim of...
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    The Schöningen spears are a set of ten wooden weapons from the Palaeolithic Age that were excavated between 1994 and 1999 from the 'Spear Horizon' in the...
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  • The Schöningen site is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Lower Saxony, in Germany, dating to around 300,000 years ago. It is best known for the Schöningen...
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    Villa Schöningen is a historic residence in the city of Potsdam, Germany, located at Berliner Straße 86 at the corner with Swan Avenue just west of the...
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    Hans Schlange-Schöningen (November 17, 1886 – July 20, 1960) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a member of the German...
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    England, and Schöningen, Germany—roughly coincides with hafting technology (attaching stone points to spears) best exemplified by the Schöningen spears. These...
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  • It was subdivided into the Ämter of Calvörde, Königslutter, Helmstedt, Schöningen, and Vorsfelde. In 1944, the Amt of Calvörde, which formed an exclave...
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    Catherine of Brandenburg (Königsberg, 28 May 1602 – 27 August 1649, Schöningen) was an elected Princess of Transylvania between 1629 and 1630. She was...
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    propensity of other great apes to hunt, and even eat their own species. The Schöningen spears and their correlation of finds are evidence that complex technological...
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    discovery of several more complete spears around 300,000 years old, the Schöningen Spears in 1995 in Germany, demonstrated this capability, and the Clacton...
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    ambiguous record. The earliest unambiguous weapons to be found are the Schöningen spears, eight wooden throwing spears dating back more than 300,000 years...
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    After the death of her husband she retired to the families residence in Schöningen. Shortly after, she fell into dispute with her stepson Duke Julius of...
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    Schöneck/Vogtl. (Saxony) Schönewalde (Brandenburg) Schongau (Bavaria) Schöningen (Lower Saxony) Schönsee (Bavaria) Schönwald (Bavaria) Schopfheim (Baden-Württemberg)...
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    throwing stick Bow and arrow history Nets Spear spear-thrower baton harpoon Schöningen woomera Projectile points Arrowhead Transverse Bare Island Cascade Clovis...
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    a large rod that rotates meat while it cooks. At the 300,000-year-old Schöningen site in Germany. A stick with a burnt tip was suggested to have been used...
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    digging sticks, a common implement in hunter-gatherer societies. The Schöningen spears are a collection of wooden spears probably made by early Neanderthals...
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    carnivore den sites of Germany – Taxonomy, taphonomy and a revision of the Schöningen, West Runton and other saber-tooth cat sites". Quaternary International...
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    Pünder Raestrup Rehling Rösch Rümmele Sabel Scharnberg Schill Schlange-Schöningen (until 9 June 1950) Schmitt Schmitz Schmücker Schröder Schröter (until...
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  • throwing stick Bow and arrow history Nets Spear spear-thrower baton harpoon Schöningen woomera Projectile points Arrowhead Transverse Bare Island Cascade Clovis...
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    throwing stick Bow and arrow history Nets Spear spear-thrower baton harpoon Schöningen woomera Projectile points Arrowhead Transverse Bare Island Cascade Clovis...
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    Sima de los Huesos Boxgrove Man (Boxgrove Quarry) Ciampate del Diavolo Schöningen Spears Mala Balanica Africa (H. rhodesiensis) Kabwe 1 Saldanha man Ndutu...
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    "Tetrarchic Practice in Name Giving". In A. Demandt; A. Goltz; H. Schlange-Schöningen (eds.). Diokletian und die Tetrarchie. Vol. 98. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp...
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  • galagos sleeping in hollows. The Clacton Spear found in England and the Schöningen spears found in present-day Germany document that wooden spears have been...
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    in Einbeck in the Principality of Grubenhagen, Nolte was educated in Schöningen, where his father, Paul Martin Nolte, was conrector. In 1711, he went...
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    throwing stick Bow and arrow history Nets Spear spear-thrower baton harpoon Schöningen woomera Projectile points Arrowhead Transverse Bare Island Cascade Clovis...
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    throwing stick Bow and arrow history Nets Spear spear-thrower baton harpoon Schöningen woomera Projectile points Arrowhead Transverse Bare Island Cascade Clovis...
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  • Schumacher 311 38.7% SPD Rudolf Amelunxen 28 3.5% Zentrum Hans Schlange-Schöningen 6 0.7% CDU Karl Arnold 1 0.1% CDU Josef Müller 1 0.1% CSU Alfred Loritz...
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    stick Woomera (spear-thrower) – Aboriginal variant of the spear-thrower Schöningen spears - Stone Age weapons "GERARDO ALDAMA JR KUMEYAAY California Indian...
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  • weapons ever found anywhere in the world was excavated from a coal mine in Schöningen, Lower Saxony. Between 1994 and 1998, eight 380,000-year-old wooden javelins...
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    δ15N between Irish elk and red deer at the Middle Pleistocene site of Schöningen in Germany suggest that grasses were a more important component of the...
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