Human artifacts were found in the bone bed and in the overlying clay.
Many individuals would have died in one area, creating a dense bone bed once fossilized.
Usually they are found as bone beds, but in 1977 the first complete skeletons were found near Kupferzell.
Under university auspices, excavation at the bone bed has continued in the summers of 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Both artifacts had been eroded from their original context and could not conclusively be associated with the Pleistocene bone bed.
These include bone beds, and the area is a declared important educational resource for the study of vertebrate palaeontology.
The fossils were found in the "lower bone bed" of the phosphate layer.
A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit that contains bones of whatever kind.
Tony's bone bed is 3.75 m below the top of the poison strip.
The only certainty regarding the number of events involved in the formation of the bone beds is that more than one occurred.