Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years
Lutz Fiedler,
Christian Humburg,
Horst Klingelhöfer,
Sebastian Stoll,
Manfred Stoll
Affiliations
Lutz Fiedler
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
Christian Humburg
Hessian Research Group for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Freiherr- vom- Stein-Str. 10, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
Horst Klingelhöfer
Hessian Research Group for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Freiherr- vom- Stein-Str. 10, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
Sebastian Stoll
Hessian Research Group for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Freiherr- vom- Stein-Str. 10, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
Manfred Stoll
Hessian Research Group for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Freiherr- vom- Stein-Str. 10, 35085 Ebsdorfergrund, Germany
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.
