Schöningen
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Schöningen is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Market place and St Vincent Church
Aerial view with Buschhaus Power Plant
Schöningen Castle
Schöningen spears
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The Schöningen spears are a set of ten Palaeolithic wooden weapons that were excavated between 1994 and 1999 from the 'Spear Horizon' in the open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, G
Schöningen
…railway line until it was closed in 2007. The town is a stop on the scenic German Timber-Frame Road. In archaeology, Schöningen is famous for the Schöningen Spears, four ancient wooden spears found in the "spear horizon" in an opencast mine near the town (Bamford & Henderson 2003). The spears are about 400,000…
The Schöningen spears (left), along with several double-pointed sticks (bottom right)
Excavation site
The littoral zone of a lake
Museum for the spears at the finding site