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A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea

by Torre, Danilo , Bruni, Piero , Abbate, Ernesto , Clarke, Ronald J. , Villa, Igor , Albianelli, Andrea , Tesfamariam, Berhane , Macchiarelli, Roberto , Tecle, Tewelde Medhin , Papini, Mauro , Cipriani, Nicola , Napoleone, Giovanni , Ficcarelli, Giovanni , Sagri, Mario , Rook, Lorenzo , Azzaroli, Augusto , Benvenuti, Marco

in Animals / Biological Evolution / Earth sciences / Earth, ocean, space / Eritrea / Evolution / Exact sciences and technology / Fossils / Hominidae - anatomy & histology / Humanities and Social Sciences / Humans / letter / multidisciplinary / Paleontology / Pleistocene / Primates / Science / Science (multidisciplinary) / Skull - anatomy & histology / Stratigraphy / Vertebrate paleontology

1998

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A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea

Torre, Danilo,

Bruni, Piero,

Abbate, Ernesto,

Clarke, Ronald J.,

Villa, Igor,

Albianelli, Andrea,

Tesfamariam, Berhane,

Macchiarelli, Roberto,

Tecle, Tewelde Medhin,

Papini, Mauro,

Cipriani, Nicola,

Napoleone, Giovanni,

Ficcarelli, Giovanni,

Sagri, Mario,

Rook, Lorenzo,

Azzaroli, Augusto,

Benvenuti, Marco

1998

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One of the most contentious topics in the study of human evolution is that of the time, place and mode of origin of Homo sapiens 1 , 2 , 3 . The discovery in the Northern Danakil (Afar) Depression, Eritrea, of a well-preserved Homo cranium with a mixture of characters typical of H. erectus and H. sapiens contributes significantly to this debate. The cranium was found in a succession of fluvio-deltaic and lacustrine deposits and is associated with a rich mammalian fauna of early to early-middle Pleistocene age. A magnetostratigraphic survey indicates two reversed and two normal magnetozones. The layer in which the cranium was found is near the top of the lower normal magnetozone, which is identified as the Jaramillo subchron. Consequently, the human remains can be dated at ∼1 million years before present.

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Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing,Nature Publishing Group

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Animals

/ Biological Evolution

/ Earth sciences

/ Earth, ocean, space

/ Eritrea

/ Evolution

/ Exact sciences and technology