This is how it might have looked in Schöningen about 300,000 years ago.Schöningen/Tübingen, 05/12/2023. In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment presents the earliest human footprints known from Germany. The tracks were discovered in the roughly 300,000-year-old Schöningen Paleolithic site complex in Lower Saxony. The footprints, presumably from Homo heidelbergensis, are surrounded by several animal tracks - collectively, they present a picture of the ecosystem at that time.
In an open birch and pine forest with an understory of grasses sits a lake, a few kilometers long and several hundred meters wide. ...
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