Ndutu cranium

Ndutu cranium
Digital reconstruction by Montiel and Lorenzo (2023).
Digital reconstruction by Montiel and Lorenzo (2023).
Common nameNdutu cranium
SpeciesHomo, species uncertain
Age450±40 ka
Place discoveredLake Ndutu
Date discoveredSeptember and October 1973
Discovered byAmini Mturi

The Ndutu skull is the partial cranium of a hominin that has been assigned variously to late Homo erectus,[1] Homo rhodesiensis,[2][3][4] and early Homo sapiens,[5] from the Middle Pleistocene, found at Lake Ndutu in northern Tanzania.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Clarke_1976 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Stringer, C. (2016). "The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 371 (1698): 20150237. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0237. PMC 4920294. PMID 27298468.
  3. ^ Bones, Stones and Molecules: "Out of Africa" and Human Origins, By David W. Cameron, Colin P. Groves, p. 186, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004
  4. ^ Image at Smithsonian
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