Neanderthals Turned Forest Into Grassland 125,000 Years Ago

The Neumark-Nord site in Germany shows us that Neanderthals occupied this lakeside site for over 2,000 years ago and molded it from a lush forest into grasslands

Around 125,000 years ago, a site we now know as Neumark-Nord in Germany, was a forested, ancient lakeside campground. It was inhabited by Neanderthals for over 2,000 years. Their settlement left behind remnants of butchering game, stone tools, shelters, and campfires.

A new paper in Science Advances documents these findings but also demonstrates that th…