The footprints reveal aspects of our human relatives' daily lives, which researchers describe in a study published May 12 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. "This is a rare snapshot of childhood in prehistory," Altamura said. The newly found footprints provide clues about what it was like to be a child 300,000 years ago. The footprints were discovered at a Paleolithic fossil site located in Lower Saxony, Germany, called Schöningen. "Since two footprints are related to young individuals, this is also proof of the existence of children on the spot," Altamura said. While one footprint clearly belonged to an adult, the others were much smaller. "These three footprints represent a significant 'direct' proof of the hominin presence on the site," Flavio Altamura, an archeologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany and lead author of a study describing the fossils, told Live Science in an email. heidelbergensis from Germany and only the fourth record of the species' footprints worldwide. While a 2018 study in the journal Scientific Reports documented a similar neighborly relationship between early humans and prehistoric beasts in Ethiopia from 700,000 years ago, this is the first footprint evidence of H.
Three rare, 300,000-year-old footprints from a Lower Paleolithic (around 3 million to 300,000 years ago) fossil site in northwestern Germany reveal that Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct species of human that existed from about 700,000 to 200,000 years ago, co-existed with prehistoric elephants and rhinos, whose footprints were also found at the site.
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