Discovering Ancient Humans Who Lived Before Neanderthals

THE SCIENCE OF NEANDERTHALS
Imagine Europe 300,000 years ago, where the air hums with the rustle of ancient forests, the bellows of megafauna echo across the plains, and for several months the night sky flared with the blinding death of a star—a supernova casting its eerie glow over a landscape teeming with life. In this primal theater, two remarkable sites in Germany, Bilzingsleben and Schöningen, emerge as stages where our ingenious ancestors, crafted lives of startling complexity.

The Heidelbergian Period is a term used to describe a phase in European prehistory, roughly spanning 600,000 to 300,000 years ago in Europe. This Period represents a crucial step in human evolution, where we find the first hints of early Neanderthals. This period is often referred to as Heidelbergian, because of the great debate over which species should be recognized, and the attribution of fossils.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 THE HEIDELBERGIAN PERIOD OF NEANDERTHAL EVOLUTION
8:00 THE INCREDIBLE SCHONINGEN THROWING SPEARS
14:00 HOW PROTO-NEANDERTHALS FORGED A PATH IN EUROPE