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Homo sapiens Kotias Klde cave, Georgia Arlington Springs Man: 13 [159] Homo sapiens: 1959 United States: Phil Orr Chancelade find: 14.5±2.5 [160] Homo sapiens: 1888 France: Villabruna 1: 14 Homo sapiens 1988 Italy Bonn-Oberkassel double burial [161] 14-13 [161] Homo sapiens: 1914 [162] Germany: Bichon man: 13.7 Homo sapiens 1956 Switzerland ...
Homo neanderthalensis, alternatively designated as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, [78] lived in Europe and Asia from 400,000 [79] to about 28,000 years ago. [80] There are a number of clear anatomical differences between anatomically modern humans (AMH) and Neanderthal specimens, many relating to the superior Neanderthal adaptation to cold ...
Early Homo appears in East Africa, speciating from australopithecine ancestors. The Lower Paleolithic is defined by the beginning of use of stone tools. Australopithecus garhi was using stone tools at about 2.5 Ma. Homo habilis is the oldest species given the designation Homo, by Leakey et al. in 1964.
Homo rhodesiensis ("Broken Hill Cranium"): dated to 324,000 to 274,000 years ago.. The category archaic human lacks a single, agreed definition. [11] According to one definition, Homo sapiens is a single species comprising several subspecies that include the archaics and modern humans.
Skull of Cro-Magnon 1. Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago.
Homo (from Latin homÅ 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
Skhul 5 replica Qafzeh 9 replica. The Skhul and Qafzeh hominins or Qafzeh–Skhul early modern humans [1] are hominin fossils discovered in Es-Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel.They are today classified as Homo sapiens, among the earliest of their species in Eurasia.
This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern (Age of Sail and modern exploration).