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Homo Erectus Skull Cast from Java, Indonesia
Cast of Homo erectus skull Sangiran 17 found at Sangiran, Java, Indonesia. It is around 1 million years old and is on display at the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
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Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia. It is well known for human occupation stretching back as far as 280,000 years ago and shows signs of occupation by Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and Denisovans. All currently known Denisovan...
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Homo Habilis Reconstruction
Homo habilis reconstruction in the Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos, sculpture by Elisabeth Daynes (2010) based on the KNM-ER 1813 cranium (Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated 1.9 Ma).
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Reconstruction of Homo Rudolfensis
Reconstruction of Homo rudolfensis, an early human species that lived in East Africa between c. 2.5 and 1.8 million years ago.
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Homo Habilis Skull
Skull of Homo habilis, displayed in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
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Homo Rudolfensis Skull (KNM-ER 1470)
Cast of the skull (KNM-ER 1470) of Homo rudolfensis. The original specimen was found at Koobi Fora in Kenya by Bernard Ngeneo (a member of Richard Leakey's team) in 1972. The skull is c. 2 million years old. David H. Koch Hall of Human...
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Homo Habilis Foot with Crocodile Bite Marks
Foot of a Homo habilis individual designated OH 8, found at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis and Mary Leakey, probably dating to around 1.8 million years ago. The bones show extensive damage caused by a crocodile – in fact, the whole foot...
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Mammoth Engraving
Cast of an engraving of a woolly mammoth on mammoth ivory made by early modern humans (Homo sapiens) at the rock shelter of La Madeleine, France, between c. 17,000- c. 11,000 years ago. It resides at the Collection de Paleontologie du Museum...
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Europe During the Last Glacial Maximum
Europe during the most recent glacial, in which the ice sheets reached peak growth between c. 26.500 to c. 19,000 years ago. This is known as the Last Glacial Maximum. Sea levels were lower than today.
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Young Woolly Mammoth Carcass
This carcass of a young woolly mammoth, nicknamed 'Yuka', is on display in Moscow after being found in an astonishingly good condition in Siberia. It died around 39,000 years ago and was between 6 and 11 years old.