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The town is located on the southeastern rim of the Elm hill range, near the border with the state of Saxony-Anhalt. In its current form, it was created in 1974 by joining the municipalities of Esbeck, Hoiersdorf, and Schöningen. Schöningen station was served by regional trains on the Wolfenbüttel–Helmstedt railway line until it ...
Schöningen ist eine Stadt im Landkreis Helmstedt am Höhenzug Elm. Sie liegt etwa elf Kilometer südwestlich der niedersächsischen Kreisstadt Helmstedt an der Grenze zu Sachsen-Anhalt.
Museum for the spears at the finding site One of the spears Schöningen mine. 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 open-cast lignite mine in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, Germany.
Schöningen. Schöningen è una città di 12.428 abitanti della Bassa Sassonia, in Germania . Appartiene al circondario ( Landkreis) di Helmstedt ( targa HE).
Schöningen ist die älteste Stadt im Braunschweiger Land mit einer reichen Geschichte und einer lebenswerten Größe. Hier finden Sie Informationen zu Sehenswürdigkeiten, Kultur, Sport, Freizeit und Service in der Region.
The Schöningen site is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Germany, dating to around 300,000 years ago. It is best known for the Schöningen spears, some of the oldest known wooden spears, found in the "spear horizon", though the site as a whole covers a broader span of time.
The discovery of early wooden hunting weapons, such as spears and throwing sticks, has revolutionized our understanding of early human hunting abilities, social interaction, and hominin cognition. The earliest wooden spears in Europe are 400 to 120 ka old, with an outstanding assemblage from Schöningen ( 5 – 9 ).
