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English: Homo erectus reconstruction, Natural History Museum, London Within these hallowed halls Revenge one does not know. (Mozart, Magic Flute) 7Artisans 35mm manual lens at F1.2, ambient light. Natural History Museum, London. This attempt at reconstructing the head of homo erectus one may like nor not.
The Kocabaş calvarium was discovered in 2002 by quarry workers during a travertine mining operation possibly at Faber Quarry [2] near the Turkish village of Kocabaş. . Although it is unknown where exactly the fossil was discovered, initial electron spin resonance dates suggest an age of 1.11±0.11 mya, and thermoluminescence suggests an age of 510±50 to 330±30 ka (later estimates ...
Homo erectus (/ ˌ h oʊ m oʊ ə ˈ r ɛ k t ə s / lit. ' upright man ') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years.It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and gait, to leave Africa and colonize Asia and Europe, and to wield fire.
KNM ER 3733 [a] is a fossilized hominid cranium of the extinct hominid Homo ergaster, alternatively referred to as African Homo erectus.It was discovered in 1975 in Koobi Fora, Kenya, right next to Lake Turkana, in a survey led by Richard Leakey, by a field worker called Bernard Ngeneo.
The Dmanisi skull, also known as Skull 5 or D4500, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and classified as early Homo erectus.Described in a publication in October 2013, it is estimated to be about 1.8 million years old and is the most complete skull of a Pleistocene Homo species, [1] [2] and the first complete adult hominin skull of that degree of antiquity.
Java Man (Homo erectus erectus, formerly also Anthropopithecus erectus or Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java (Indonesia). Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,490,000 years old, it was, at the time of its discovery, the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remains the type ...
Reconstruction of a female H. erectus Homo erectus derives from early Homo or late Australopithecus . Homo habilis , although significantly different of anatomy and physiology, is thought to be the ancestor of Homo ergaster , or African Homo erectus ; but it is also known to have coexisted with H. erectus for almost half a million years (until ...
Replica of Sangiran 17 Homo erectus skull from Indonesia showing obtuse face to vault angle determined by fitting of bones at brow. Cast of anatomically modern human Kow Swamp 1 skull from Australia with a face to vault angle matching that of Sangiran 17 (Wolpoff's reconstruction).