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From: Timing of the Saalian- and Elsterian glacial cycles and the implications for Middle – Pleistocene hominin presence in central Europe

Figure 4

Middle Pleistocene climatic fluctuations100 as well as luminescence ages from this study indicating periods of Middle-Pleistocene fluvial aggradation of the SMT. Within the bottom part of the graph, next to the boxes with site labels, the direct dated sites Weimar-Ehringsdorf71,72,82 and Schöningen34,78 are added to complete the picture of human presence in central Germany. The MIS boundaries59 referred to in that paper are: 13/12 = 478 ka; 12/11 = 424 ka; 11/10 = 374 ka; 10/9 = 337 ka; 9/8 = 300 ka; 8/7 = 243 ka; 7/6 = 191 ka; 6/5 = 130 ka. First traces of humans in central Germany (Schladebach/Wallendorf) are most likely connected to the Holsteinain (MIS 11). The blue arrows mark a: the first significant ice advances of Fennoscandian glaciers during the Quaternary (Elsterian glacial cycle) within MIS 12 and b: the southernmost ice sheet extension during the Saalian glacial cycle (Zeitz-phase; Drenthe).

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