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Rewriting the Timeline: Neanderthal Innovation at Schöningen

Anthropology.net

In a soggy pit on the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a cache of wooden spears lay hidden for nearly a quarter of a million years. When they were first unearthed in the 1990s from the Schöningen site, archaeologists believed these weapons might have been crafted by Homo heidelbergensis —a hominin species ancestral to Neanderthals and perhaps to us.

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Inspirational Places - which are yours?

Living Geography

During the 125th anniversary year of the GA, I tried to collate a list of 125 inspirational places using a Google Form. I didnt quite get enough places, so never did anything with the responses I got in the end. Check out the Inspirational Places website that I created for a project I did with Professor Peter Knight as well. Perhaps its now time to try to get a good set of responses so that I can share them and use them next time I teach my Landscapes topic, which needs a little more Please go t

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“Tower by the Thames,” the complete show Video!

Life and Landscapes

What a blast! Click below to see the entire show: And now for some fun pictures!

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