Homo Antecessor Had Surprisingly Modern Skull, New Fossils Suggest

Homo antecessor Skull Fragments Examined - Archaeology Magazine

Homo antecessor skull fragments BURGOS, SPAIN—SciNews reports that researchers led by Rafael Gallareto-Sande of Spain’s National Research Center on Human Evolution have conducted a new computed microtomography study of Homo antecessor skull fragments representing three individuals. The fossils were recovered from northern Spain’s Gran Dolina cave in 1994. Homo antecessor lived in Europe between 1.2 million and 600,000 years ago. Previous studies…

Newly Analyzed Skull Fragments Suggest Ancient Human Species Had a “Mosaic” Anatomy

Learn more about adult Homo antecessor skull fragments from a Spanish cave that highlight the species' mosaic anatomy.

Homo antecessor Had Surprisingly Modern Skull, New Fossils Suggest

A new analysis of three skull fragments unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in Spain indicates that Homo antecessor had bone thickness closer to that of Neanderthals and modern people than to more archaic hominins. The post Homo antecessor Had Surprisingly Modern Skull, New Fossils Suggest appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Homo antecessor skull layers resemble modern humans and Neanderthals, fragments suggest