Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “This is what it might have looked like at Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago,” Flavio Altamura, a fellow at the Senckenberg Centre for ...

Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older than previously believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, the ...

Archaeologists working in Lower Saxony, have unearthed fossilized human footprints dating back about 300,000 years. The discovery, described in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represents the ...