Züschen (megalithic Tomb)
The Züschen tomb (german: Steinkammergrab von Züschen, sometimes also ''Lohne-Züschen'') is a prehistoric burial monument, located between Lohne and Züschen, near Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany. Classified as a gallery grave or a Hessian-Westphalian stone cist (''hessisch-westfälische Steinkiste''), it is one of the most important megalithic monuments in Central Europe. Dating to the late 4th millennium BC (and possibly remaining in use until the early 3rd), it belongs to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture. The presence of incised carvings, comparable to prehistoric rock art elsewhere in Europe, is a striking feature of Wartberg culture tombs, known so far only from Züschen and from tomb I at Warburg. Discovery and excavation The tomb was accidentally discovered in 1894. For a number of years, a row of sandstone blocks had impeded the local miller from ploughing one of his fields. When he decided to remove them, Rudolf Gelpke, an inspector from nearby Garvensburg castle, no ...
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Züschen may refer to: *Züschen, Fritzlar, a village in Hesse, Germany *Züschen (megalithic tomb) The Züschen tomb (german: Steinkammergrab von Züschen, sometimes also ''Lohne-Züschen'') is a prehistoric burial monument, located between Lohne and Züschen, near Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany. Classified as a gallery grave or a Hessian-Westphalia ...

Johannes Boehlau
Johannes Boehlau (30 September 1861, Halle an der Saale – 24 September 1941, Göttingen) was a German classical archaeologist. In 1884 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock with the dissertation thesis, ''Quaestiones de re vestiaria Graecorum''. This was followed by a study trip to Asia Minor and Greece (1885/86) that was made possible from a travel grant by the German Institute of Archaeology (DAI)."Sentence based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia". From 1902 to 1928 he was director of the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel and was a primary catalyst towards construction of the Hessisches Landesmuseum. He conducted archaeological field studies at Samos (1894), Larissa (1902) and at Lesbos (1906). After his retirement, he returned to Larissa, where he performed excavatory work with Karl Schefold and Lennart Kjellberg. In addition to his work in classical archaeology, he also performed excavatory investigations in Germany ...
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