Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years
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Department of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology, University of Marburg, Wolffstrasse, 35037 Marburg, Germany 2 Hessian Research Group for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Freiherr- vom- Stein-Str. 10, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
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Hessian Research Group for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Freiherr- vom- Stein-Str. 10, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
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Humanities 2019, 8(3), 129; https://doi.org/10.3390/h8030129
Received: 13 March 2019 / Revised: 21 May 2019 / Accepted: 23 May 2019 / Published: 31 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Re-assessing Human Origins)
The important discoveries of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts in stratigraphical context within Lower and early Middle Pleistocene deposits in the western continental part of Europe along the rift systeme of the Rhine Valley are pointing at the possible continuous presence of hominins since the Lower Pleistocene. This paper reports on lithic industry from its early appearance at around 1.3 million years (Ma) at the site of Münster-Sarmsheim to the latest pre-Elsterian period at around 0.6 Ma at Mauer, Mosbach, and Miesenheim.
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Fiedler, L.; Humburg, C.; Klingelhöfer, H.; Stoll, S.; Stoll, M. Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years. Humanities 2019, 8, 129.
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