The Mauer mandible, holotype of Homo heidelbergensis, was found in 1907 in fluvial sands
deposited by the Neckar River 10 km southeast of Heidelberg, Germany. The fossil is an …

The mandible of Homo heidelbergensis was found 1907 in the sand pit Grafenrain at Mauer
in coarse fluvial sands 24 m below the surface, deposited in a former course of the Neckar …

We review the hominin fossil record from western Central Europe in light of the recent major
revisions of the geochronological context. The mandible from Mauer (Homo …

The discovery of new fossils in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and the recognition of a greater
diversity in the middle Pleistocene fossil record, has led to a reconsideration of the species …

the last common ancestor, the name H. rhodesiensis would take priority if the Broken Hill
fossil is included. However, a study on Pleistocene and modern human mandibles argues …

The significance of the species H. heidelbergensis is discussed by means of the comparison
of the holotypeof this species-the mauer mandible-with a large set of Homo fossils. It is …

At the onset of the Quaternary, hominids identified as Homo erectus spread widely across
the Old World. These populations persisted in the Far East until late in the Middle …

The “packaging” of the diverse living world is untidy, with the result that there are no
absolute criteria for recognizing in all contexts the bounded historical entities we call …

Engelswies is an early Miocene vertebrate locality in southern Germany with a rich
assemblage of terrestrial mammals, invertebrates and fossil plants. It is dated to 16· 5–17 …

The Orce region has one of the best late Pliocene and early Pleistocene continental
paleobiological records of Europe. It is situated in the northeastern sector of the …