Steinheim

Site near Stuttgart, Germany, where a human skull was discovered in gravels of the Holsteinian (penultimate) interglacial some 250,000 or 300,000 years ago. No artifacts were found, but the Steinheim skull is older than any Neanderthal or Homo sapiens skeleton, and is closer to the Swanscombe skull than to any other specimen. The Steinheim and Swanscombe skulls may belong to a distinct subspecies of Homo, but have also been classified as early Neanderthaloids or primitive Homo sapiens.

A site near Stuttgart in southwest Germany, where in 1933 a nearly complete Palaeolithic skull was found in a gravel pit. The level in question dates from well before the Mousterian, possibly from the Holstein (penultimate) interglacial some 250,000 or 300,000 years ago. The skull is usually classified as primitive Homo sapiens, and as such it is the earliest complete skull of this type.