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Archanthropus of Petralona

  • 02-12-2015 5:38pm
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    Crann na Beatha
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    Black Swan
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    There have been similar finds comparable to this northeastern Greece Petralona skull at Arago in France, Bodo in Ethiopia, and Kabwe in Zambia. All specimens have prominent browridges, rear skull ridge, and thick brain case similar to Homo erectus that lived during the Pleistocene geological epoch. Like later Homo sapiens this extinct species was widely spread across the globe from Asia to Europe to Africa continents. They were tool makers and had culture.

    Establishing age for this specimen has been problematic and controversial. Estimates of the Petralona skull range from 350,000 to 120,000 years ago. Other estimates range from 700,000 to 70,000 years ago. If the Petralona skull is in fact Homo erectus, and not some other species, then an earlier more complete specimen had been found and dated at 1.5 million years ago (Turkana Boy) in Kenya.


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