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Mauer

Type site of Homo heidelbergensis: a robust mandible found in a sand pit in 1907, dated by combined methods to about 609,000 years.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 607,000 years ago disputed
  Mauer mandible, the Homo heidelbergensis type specimen, dated by combined radiometric methods to 609,000 years source

Where

49.3486° N, 8.8007° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1012722107
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauer_1

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