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Homo heidelbergensis (also H. erectus heidelbergensis, [1] H. sapiens heidelbergensis[2]) is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human which existed during the Middle Pleistocene. It was subsumed as a subspecies of H. erectus in 1950 as H. e. heidelbergensis, but towards the end of the century, it was more widely classified as its own ...
Florisbad Skull. The Florisbad Skull is an important human fossil of the early Middle Stone Age, representing either late Homo heidelbergensis or early Homo sapiens. It was discovered in 1932 by T. F. Dreyer at the Florisbad site, Free State Province, South Africa.
The Steinheim skull is a fossilized skull of a Homo neanderthalensis [1] or Homo heidelbergensis found on 24 July 1933 near Steinheim an der Murr, Germany. [2] It is estimated to be between 250,000 and 350,000 years old.
Ninety percent of the known Homo heidelbergensis fossil record have been obtained at the site. The fossil bone pit includes: The complete cranium, Skull 5, nicknamed Miguelón, the fragmented cranial remains of Skull 4, nicknamed Agamenón and Skull 6, nicknamed Rui (a reference to the medieval military leader El Cid).
Aroeira 3 is a 400,000 year old Homo heidelbergensis hominid skull from the Middle Pleistocene which was discovered in the Aroeira cave, Portugal and announced in spring 2017. It is the earliest human trace in Portugal. Hominin fossils from this era are commonly classified as H. heidelbergensis, a chronospecies that stands at the transition ...
Miguelón is the popular nickname for a human skull, classified as either late Homo heidelbergensis or as early Homo neanderthalensis . It has been estimated to date to 430,000 years ago. It is one of more than 5,500 fossils belonging to early human populations which have been found in the Sima de los Huesos ("pit of bones") site in the Sierra ...
Poulianos (1981) dated the skull to an estimated age of around 700,000 years. [8] [9] Today, most academics who have analyzed the Petralona remains classify the hominid as a Homo heidelbergensis [10] a Middle Pleistocene species, which probably was the common ancestor of Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis) and Modern Man (Homo sapiens).
The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is an internationally important archaeological site north-east of Boxgrove in West Sussex with findings that date to the Lower Palaeolithic. The oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered on the site, fossils of Homo heidelbergensis dating to 500,000 years ago. [2] Boxgrove is also one of the oldest ...