Palaeoloxodon Archives

300,000-Year-Old Footprints of Homo heidelbergensis Found in Germany

By Sergio Prostak July 26, 2023

Archaeologists have discovered three footprints of Homo heidelbergensis — a direct ancestor of Neanderthals — and numerous footprints of elephants and other species of herbivores at Schöningen, a well-known Middle…

Neanderthals Hunted Straight-Tusked Elephants 125,000 Years Ago

By Enrico de Lazaro February 2, 2023

Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, present in Europe and western Asia between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago. A new analysis of 125,000-year-old…

Israeli Archaeologists Find 500,000-Year-Old Tusk of Straight-Tusked Elephant

By News Staff September 18, 2022

The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that lived throughout Europe and Asia between 1.5 million and 100,000 years ago. The animal stood up to 4…

300,000-Year-Old Footprints of Homo heidelbergensis Found in Germany

Neanderthals Hunted Straight-Tusked Elephants 125,000 Years Ago

Israeli Archaeologists Find 500,000-Year-Old Tusk of Straight-Tusked Elephant

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