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Steinrinne Bilzingsleben Archaeological Site

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Steinrinne Bilzingsleben Archaeological Site

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Steinrinne Bilzingsleben Archaeological Site

Name: Steinrinne Bilzingsleben Archaeological Site
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Location: Bilzingsleben, Sömmerda, Thuringia, Germany

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1. Gründelsloch Karst Spring – St. Ulrich Church Kindelbrück loop from Frömmstedt

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2. St. Ulrich Church Kindelbrück – Gründelsloch Karst Spring loop from Kindelbrück

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3. St. Johannes Church Frömmstedt – Gründelsloch Karst Spring loop from Frömmstedt

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Alwin

July 21, 2024

It's great that you can experience archaeology here in a vivid way. There is touring stamp 374 on the fence.

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Karla Chen

April 29, 2023

Unique archaeological site with evidence from the earliest human history

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Wanderkaiser Opilio Martinus I.

March 17, 2019

Homo erectus bilzingslebenensis is one such discovery. About 370,000 years ago, he had his camp on the northern edge of the Thuringian Basin, in today's community Bilzingsleben, in the district Sömmerda.

Homo erectus Bilzingslebenensis is one of the earliest human finds in central and northwestern Europe. Only the finds in Boxgrove and Mauer near Heidelberg are older. But it would take several millennia for Bilzi to see the light of day again. In 1818, the reference to the discovery of a fossil human skull in Bilzingsleben can be found in the work of paleontologist Friedrich Ernst von Schlotheim. But more details can not be reconstructed today. The skull is missing. The next finds, numerous stone artefacts, go back to Ewald Wüst from the Geological Institute in Halle and the year 1908.

Only in the years 1972/73 experienced Bilzingsleben his archaeological sensation. Professor Dietrich Mania found in the travertine stone of the old quarry the remains of a primitive man - the homo erectus bilzingslebenensis.
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Steinrinne Bilzingsleben Archaeological Site

1. Gründelsloch Karst Spring – St. Ulrich Church Kindelbrück loop from Frömmstedt

2. St. Ulrich Church Kindelbrück – Gründelsloch Karst Spring loop from Kindelbrück

3. St. Johannes Church Frömmstedt – Gründelsloch Karst Spring loop from Frömmstedt

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