Bibliographical note

The authors would like to thank first of all the Lower Saxony State Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) for the generous funding of the “Project Schöningen“ and the Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (NLD; State Service for Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony) and in particular Jens Lehmann, Henning Hassmann, Kurt Felix Hillgruber and Thomas Terberger for the close and always positive cooperation. Brigitte Urban and Mario Tucci were partially funded by the Lower Saxony State Ministry of Science and Culture , Hanover, Germany (PRO*Niedersachsen, Projekt: 74ZN1230 ). A special thank you is due to the discoverer and long-term director of the excavation, Hartmut Thieme; he provided the basis for all following research. We also want to thank the excavation team, Wolfgang Mertens, Jörg Neumann Giesen, Neil Haycock, Wolfgang Berkemer, Martin Kursch and Dennis Mennella, for their long-term contribution to the Schöningen Project and for the numerous, often very creative discussions. Thanks to Neil Haycock for linguistic corrections and Cordula Schwarz for her voluntary contribution to the project. We also like to thank the more than 300 students and PhD candidates that under the coordination of André Ramcharan and Alexander Janas chose Schöningen for increasing their knowledge in field archaeology. Last but not least, sincere thanks to the more than 80 colleagues from 30 institutions worldwide that are working with their own expertise in collaboration with the Project Schöningen. Appendix A