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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 ...
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).
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.
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.
Under this definition, modern humans are referred to as Homo sapiens sapiens and archaics are also designated with the prefix "Homo sapiens". For example, the Neanderthals are Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, and Homo heidelbergensis is Homo sapiens heidelbergensis. Other taxonomists prefer not to consider archaics and modern humans as a single ...
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 ...
Homo tautavelensis. Homo erectus (/ ˌhoʊmoʊ əˈrɛktəs /; meaning " upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago. [2] Its specimens are among the first recognizable members of the genus Homo.
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 ...