Although the age of Schöningen site is debated, this DNA sample is one of (if not the) oldest ever recovered from an open-air ...

Scientists believe that 300,000 years ago in Lower Saxony, Homo heidelbergensis shared space with a now-extinct species of elephants ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus) along a lakeshore, thanks to newly ...

Archaeologists in Germany made a stunning discovery of numerous ritual pits that belonged to the Salzmünde culture, revealing a prehistoric society that struggled with internal and external changes.

At a site in Lower Saxony, archaeologists discovered 300,000-year-old fossilized footprints, Europe’s oldest. Likely made by ...

Ordinarily, it is the task of archaeologists to painstakingly sift through the ground in pursuit of the past. A recent project in central Germany, however, has done something altogether different.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...