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! Name
! Age (Ma)
! Species
! Date discovered
! Country
! Discovered by
! Now located at |
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| KNM-WT 17000 (The Black Skull)
| 2.50
| Paranthropus aethiopicus
| 1985
| Kenya
| Alan Walker
| |
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| BOU-VP-12/130[Bouri Vertebrate Paleontology {{cite web|url=http://efossils.org/page/boneviewer/Australopithecus%20garhi/BOU-VP-12%5C130|title=Australopithecus garhi: BOU-VP-12/130|publisher=efossils|access-date=13 June 2016}}]
| 2.50
| Australopithecus garhi
| 1997
| Ethiopia
| Yohannes Haile-Selassie
| |
File:Sterkfontein Caves 4.jpg
| STS 71[http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/sts-71 Image at Smithsonian]
| 2.61–2.07
| Australopithecus africanus
| 1947
| Sterkfontein, South Africa
| Robert Broom and John T. Robinson
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
File:Sterkfontein Caves 3.jpg
| STS 52
| 2.61–2.07
| Australopithecus africanus
| 1947
| Sterkfontein, South Africa
| Robert Broom
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
File:HPCR-UR 501-04.jpg
| UR 501 (Uraha jawbone)
| 2.40±0.10
| Homo rudolfensis[At the time of its discovery considered the oldest fossil evidence of genus Homo. {{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S1251-8050(97)88294-8 | volume=325 | title=UR 501, the Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Malawi. Analysis of the microanatomy of the enamel | year=1997 | journal=Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIA | pages=231–234 | last1 = Ramirez Rozzi | first1 = Fernando V. | last2 = Bromage | first2 = Tim | last3 = Schrenk | first3 = Friedemann| issue=3 | bibcode=1997CRASE.325..231R }}. Since the discovery of LD 350-1 (2.8 Ma, intermediate between Australopithecus and Homo) arguably demoted to the rank of second-oldest fossil of Homo.]
| 1991
| Malawi
| Tyson Msiska, Timothy Bromage, Friedemann Schrenk
| |
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| STS 5 (Mrs. Ples) (STS 14)[{{cite web|url=http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/sts14.html |title=STS 14 |access-date=2006-07-11 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060118234116/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/sts14.html |archive-date=2006-01-18 }} Image at Modern Human Origins.]
{{cite web|url=https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/australopithecus-africanus/|title=Australopithecus africanus|publisher=Australian Museum|date=20 January 2011}}
| 2.07[{{cite journal|last1=Herries|first1=Andy I.R.|last2=Shaw|first2=John|title=Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sterkfontein palaeocave deposits: Implications for the age of the hominin fossils and stone tool industries|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|volume=60|issue=5|year=2011|pages=523–39|issn=0047-2484|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.09.001|pmid=21392817|bibcode=2011JHumE..60..523H }}]
| Australopithecus africanus
| 1947
| Sterkfontein, South Africa
| Robert Broom
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
| DNH 134 (Simon)[{{Cite journal|last=Herries|first=Andy|title=Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw7293|journal=Science|year=2020|volume=368|issue=6486|pages=eaaw7293|doi=10.1126/science.aaw7293|pmid=32241925|hdl=11568/1040368|s2cid=214763272|hdl-access=free}}]
| 2.04
| Homo erectus
| 2015
| Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa
| Andy Herries' team (excavated by Richard Curtis, Andy Herries, Angeline Leece; reconstructed by Jesse Martin)
| University of the Witwatersrand |
| DNH 155[{{Cite journal|last1=Martin|first1=Jesse M.|last2=Leece|first2=A. B.|last3=Neubauer|first3=Simon|last4=Baker|first4=Stephanie E.|last5=Mongle|first5=Carrie S.|last6=Boschian|first6=Giovanni|last7=Schwartz|first7=Gary T.|last8=Smith|first8=Amanda L.|last9=Ledogar|first9=Justin A.|last10=Strait|first10=David S.|last11=Herries|first11=Andy I. R.|date=2020-11-09|title=Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species|url=http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01319-6|journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution|volume=5|issue=1|pages=38–45|language=en|doi=10.1038/s41559-020-01319-6|pmid=33168991|bibcode=2020NatEE...5...38M |hdl=11568/1066411 |s2cid=226296091|issn=2397-334X|url-access=subscription|hdl-access=free}}]
| 2.04–1.95
| Paranthropus robustus
| 2018
| Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa
| Andy Herries and Stephanie Baker's team (first found by Samantha Good and excavated by Samantha Good, Angeline Leece, Stephanie Baker and Andy Herries; reconstructed by Jesse Martin)
| University of the Witwatersrand |
| DNH 152(Khethi)
| 2.04–1.95
| Paranthropus robustus
| 2018
| Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa
| Andy Herries and Stephanie Baker's team (first part found by Khethi Nkosi. later parts by Amber Jaeger, Eunice Lalunio; reconstructed by Jesse Martin & Angeline Leece)
| University of the Witwatersrand |
File:DNH7.jpg
| DNH 7 (Eurydice)[{{cite web|url=http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/dnh7.html|title=Modernhumanorigins.net|website=www.modernhumanorigins.net|access-date=2007-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617124822/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/dnh7.html|archive-date=2010-06-17|url-status=usurped}}]
| 2.04–1.95
| Paranthropus robustus
| 1994
| Drimolen, Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa
| R. Smith and André Keyser
| University of the Witwatersrand |
| KNM-ER 64060
| 2.03
| Homo habilis
| 2012
| Ileret, Kenya
|
| |
| KNM-ER 64061
| 2.02
| Homo erectus
| 2012-2013
| Ileret, Kenya
|
| |
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| TM 1517[{{cite web |author=Department of Anthropology: The University of Texas at Austin |url=http://efossils.org/page/boneviewer/Paranthropus%20robustus/TM%201517 |title=Paranthropus robustus: TM 1517 |access-date=2014-06-09}}]
| 2.0
| Paranthropus robustus
| 1938
| South Africa
| Gert Terblanche
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
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| MH1 (Karabo)[{{cite web |title=Spectacular South African Skeletons Reveal New Species from Murky Period of Human Evolution |website=Scientific American |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111000840/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=south-african-hominin-fossil |archive-date=2013-11-11 |url-status=live |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=south-african-hominin-fossil}}][{{Cite web|author=Juliet King |title=Australopithecus sediba fossil named by 17-year-old Johannesburg student |publisher=Origins Centre |date=June 4, 2010 |url=http://www.origins.org.za/news/entry/australopithecus_sediba_named_by_17-year-old_johannesburg_student/ |access-date=2011-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325202100/http://www.origins.org.za/news/entry/australopithecus_sediba_named_by_17-year-old_johannesburg_student/ |archive-date=March 25, 2012 }}]
| 1.98[{{cite news|first=Jonathan|last=Amos|title=African fossils put new spin on human origins story |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14824435 |work=BBC News |access-date=9 September 2011 |date=2011-09-08}}]
| Australopithecus sediba
| 2008
| Malapa, South Africa
| Matthew Berger and Lee Rogers Berger
| University of the Witwatersrand |
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| KNM-ER 1813
| 1.90
| Homo habilis
| 1973
| Kenya
| Kamoya Kimeu
| |
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| KNM-ER 1470
| 1.90
| Homo rudolfensis
| 1972
| Kenya
| Bernard Ngeneo[Mai, L.L., Owl, M.Y., & Kersting, M.P. (2005), p. 286]
| |
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| SK 48
| 2.25–1.80
| Paranthropus robustus
| 1948
| Swartkrans, South Africa
| Robert Broom
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
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| SK 46[{{cite web|url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/sk-46|title=SK 46|date=24 January 2010}}]
| 2.25–1.80
| Paranthropus robustus
| 1949
| Swartkrans, South Africa
| Robert Broom
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
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| SK 847[{{cite web|url=http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/sk847.html|title=Modernhumanorigins.net|website=www.modernhumanorigins.net|access-date=2007-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927013715/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/sk847.html|archive-date=2007-09-27|url-status=usurped}}]
| 2.25–1.80
| Homo habilis
| 1949
| Swartkrans, South Africa
|
| Ditsong National Museum of Natural History |
File:OH 24 replica 02.JPG
| OH 24 (Twiggy)[http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/oh-24 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191545/http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/oh-24 |date=2016-03-04 }} Image at Smithsonian]
| 1.80
| Homo habilis
| 1968
| Tanzania
| Peter Nzube
| |
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| OH 8[{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20101208034128/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/oh8.html Article title]}} OH 8 image of foot at Modern Human Origins]
| 1.80
| Homo habilis
| 1960
| Olduvai, Tanzania
|
| |
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| D2700 (Dmanisi Skull 3)
| 1.81±0.40[{{cite journal | last1 = Lordkipanidze | first1 = D. | last2 = de Leon | first2 = Ponce | last3 = Margvelashvili | first3 = A. | last4 = Rak | first4 = Y. | last5 = Rightmire | first5 = G. P. | last6 = Vekua | first6 = A. | last7 = Zollikofer | first7 = C. P. E. | year = 2013 | title = A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo | journal = Science | volume = 342 | issue = 6156| pages = 326–31 | doi = 10.1126/science.1238484 | bibcode = 2013Sci...342..326L | pmid = 24136960 | s2cid = 20435482 }}]
| Homo erectus
| 2001
| Dmanisi, Georgia
| David Lordkipanidze and Abesalom Vekua
| |
File:Dmanisi-D3444. Homo erectus or Homo georgicus.jpg
| D3444 (Dmanisi Skull 4)
| 1.81±0.40
| Homo erectus
| 2003
| Dmanisi, Georgia
| David Lordkipanidze
| |
File:Skull in dmanisi archaeological site.JPG
| D4500 (Dmanisi Skull 5)
| 1.81±0.40
| Homo erectus
| 2005 (published in 2013)
| Dmanisi, Georgia
| David Lordkipanidze
| |
| KNM-ER 62000–62003[{{cite journal |vauthors=Leakey MG, Spoor F, Dean MC, etal |title=New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo |journal=Nature |volume=488 |issue=7410 |pages=201–04 |date=August 2012 |pmid=22874966 |doi=10.1038/nature11322|bibcode=2012Natur.488..201L |s2cid=4431262 }}F]
| 1.84±0.60
| Homo rudolfensis
| 2012
| Koobi Fora, Kenya
| Meave Leakey's team
| |
| KNM-ER 64062
| 1.84±0.02
| Homo erectus
| 2013
| Ileret, Kenya
|
| |
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| OH 5 (Zinj or nutcracker man)
| 1.75
| Paranthropus boisei
| 1959
| Tanzania
| Mary Leakey
| |
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| OH 7
| 1.75
| Homo habilis
| 1960
| Tanzania
| Jonathan Leakey
| |
File:6a00d8341bf67c53ef01348157067b970c-320wi.jpg
| StW 53
| 1.8–1.6
| variously A. africanus, H. habilis, H. gautengensis
| 1976
| Sterkfontein, South Africa
| A. R. Hughes
| University of the Witwatersrand |
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| KNM-ER 1805
| 1.74
| Homo habilis
| 1973/4
| Kenya
| Paul Abell
| |
File:Teeth of Yuanmou Man (Cast) - cropped.png
| Yuanmou Man
| 1.70 or 0.60–0.50 (disputed)[[http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/yuanmou.html Inverted strata] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002024048/http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/yuanmou.html |date=2006-10-02 }}]
| Homo erectus
| 1965
| China
| Fang Qian
| |
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| KNM-ER 406
| 1.70
| Paranthropus boisei
| 1969
| Kenya
| Richard Leakey
| |
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| KNM-ER 732[{{cite book | title = From Lucy to Language | url = https://archive.org/details/fromlucytolangua0000joha | url-access = registration |author1=Donald C. Johanson |author2=Blake Edgar | page= [https://archive.org/details/fromlucytolangua0000joha/page/158 158] |location= New York|publisher =Simon & Schuster |year = 1996}}]
| 1.70
| Paranthropus boisei
| 1970
| Kenya
| Richard Leakey
| |
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| KNM-ER 23000[{{Cite web |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/knm-er-23000 |title=Image at Smithsonian |access-date=2013-02-08 |archive-date=2016-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307092524/http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/knm-er-23000 |url-status=dead }}]
| 1.70
| Paranthropus boisei
| 1990
| Koobi Fora, Kenya
| Benson Kyongo
| |
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| KNM-WT 17400[{{cite journal |author=Leakey, R. E. F. |author2=Walker, A. C. |year=1988 |title=New Australopithecus boisei specimens from East and West Lake Turkana, Kenya |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |issn=1096-8644 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=1–24 |pmid=3136654 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330760102}}][{{cite book |editor1-last=Grine |editor1-first=Frederick E. |title=Evolutionary History of the "Robust" Australopithecines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmQ46CDN6DsC |year=2007 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=978-0202365961 |access-date=16 February 2015 |pages=99, 185–86, 247|last1=Grine |first1=Frederick E. }}]
| 1.70
| Paranthropus boisei
| Not known[{{cite book |editor1-last=Wood |editor1-first=Bernard |year=2011 |title=Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set |isbn=978-1444342475 |doi=10.1002/9781444342499 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=440TmWXToLAC |access-date=11 May 2014|last1=Wood |first1=Bernard }} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444342499.refs/pdf Access to the references of this book].]
| Lake Turkana (West Lake Turkana) Kenya
| unknown
| National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (Kenia) |
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| KNM-ER 3733
| 1.63±0.15[{{Cite journal | last1 = Lepre | first1 = C. J. | last2 = Kent | first2 = D. V. | doi = 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.032 | title = New magnetostratigraphy for the Olduvai Subchron in the Koobi Fora Formation, northwest Kenya, with implications for early Homo | journal = Earth and Planetary Science Letters | volume = 290 | issue = 3–4 | page = 362 | year = 2010 |bibcode = 2010E&PSL.290..362L }}.]
"paleo-magnetic results of this study delimit the age of KNM-ER 3733 to 1.78–1.48 Ma, making it one of the most securely dated fossils of early African H. erectus when compared to the oldest Homo fossils from Europe and Asia."
| Homo ergaster (a.k.a. African Homo erectus)
| 1975
| Kenya
|
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| Lantian Man
| 1.62±0.03
| Homo erectus
| 1963
| Lantian County, China
| Woo Ju-Kang
| |
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| KNM-WT 15000 (Turkana Boy)
| 1.60
| Homo ergaster (a.k.a. African Homo erectus)
| 1984
| Lake Turkana (West Lake Turkana), Kenya
| Kamoya Kimeu
| Kenya National Museum |
File:Peninj mandible replica.jpg
| Peninj Mandible
| 1.50
| Paranthropus boisei
| 1964
| Tanzania
| Richard Leakey
| |
File:Ileret trackways.jpg
| Ileret Footprints
| 1.50
| Homo erectus
| 2007-2014
| Ileret, Kenya
|
| |
File:KNM-ER 992. REPLICA. MCN.jpg
| KNM-ER 992
| 1.50
| Homo ergaster (a.k.a. African Homo erectus)
| 1971
| Kenya
| Richard Leakey
| |
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| KNM-ER 3883
| 1.57±0.08
| Homo erectus
| 1976
| Kenya
| Richard Leakey
| |
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| Mojokerto 1 (Mojokerto child)
| 1.43±0.10
| Homo erectus
| 1936
| Indonesia
| Andojo, G.H.R. von Koenigswald
| |
File:Replica BL02-J54-100 pic4.JPG
|BL02-J54-100[{{Cite journal |last1=Toro-Moyano |first1=Isidro |last2=Martínez-Navarro |first2=Bienvenido |last3=Agustí |first3=Jordi |last4=Souday |first4=Caroline |last5=Bermúdez de Castro |first5=José María |last6=Martinón-Torres |first6=María |last7=Fajardo |first7=Beatriz |last8=Duval |first8=Mathieu |last9=Falguères |first9=Christophe |last10=Oms |first10=Oriol |last11=Parés |first11=Josep Maria |last12=Anadón |first12=Pere |last13=Julià |first13=Ramón |last14=García-Aguilar |first14=José Manuel |last15=Moigne |first15=Anne-Marie |date=2013 |title=The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain) |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0047248413000304 |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |language=en |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.012|pmid=23481345 |bibcode=2013JHumE..65....1T |hdl=10072/338463 |hdl-access=free }}]
|1.40
|Similar to H. heidelbergensis
|Unknown
|Spain
|Unknown
| |
| KGA 10-525[{{cite journal |first1=Bernard A. |last1=Wood |first2=Paul J. |last2=Constantino |title=Paranthropus boisei: Fifty Years of Evidence and Analysis |date=28 November 2007 |journal=Yearbook of Physical Anthropology |volume=50 |pages=109–10 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.20732 |pmid=18046746 |doi-access=free }}][{{cite web |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/konso-kga10-525 |title=Konso KGA10-525 |author=Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |work= What does it mean to be human? |access-date=17 February 2015|date=2010-01-24}}]
| 1.40
| Paranthropus boisei
| 1993
| Konso-Gardula, Ethiopia
| A. Amzaye
| |
File:OH 9 Replica 02.JPG
| OH 9 (Chellean Man)[{{cite web|url=http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/oh9.html|title=Modernhumanorigins.net|website=www.modernhumanorigins.net|access-date=2007-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617090306/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/oh9.html|archive-date=2010-06-17|url-status=usurped}}]
| 1.40
| Homo erectus
| 1960
| Olduvai, Tanzania
| Louis Leakey
| |
|Sima del Elephante maxilla[{{Cite web |date=2023-01-29 |title=Atapuerca completa el puzle con el "Homo erectus": "Es seguro, no hay dudas" |url=https://www.larazon.es/cultura/historia/homo-erectus-descubrimiento-que-revoluciona-historia-atapuerca_2023012963d3f82ff0501d0001425302.html |access-date=2023-08-13 |website=www.larazon.es |language=es}}]
|1.40
|Homo erectus?
|2022
|Spain
|
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| OH 80
| 1.34
| Paranthropus boisei
| 2010
| Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
| Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo
| National Museum of Tanzania |
File:Mandible Sima del Elefante.jpg
| ATE9-1[{{cite news | work = Nature News | date = March 26, 2008 | author = Michael Hopkin | title = Fossil find is oldest European yet | doi = 10.1038/news.2008.691}}]
| 1.20
| Homo sp. or Homo erectus?
| 2008
| Spain
| Eudald Carbonell
| Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain) |
File:Kocabas det.jpg
| Kocabaş
| 1.10[{{cite journal | doi=10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.031 | bibcode=2014E&PSL.390....8L | title = Dating the Homo erectus bearing travertine from Kocabas (Denizli, Turkey) at at least 1.1 Ma | volume = 390 | pages = 8–18 | journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters| year=2014 | last1=Lebatard | first1=Anne-Elisabeth | last2=Alçiçek | first2=M. Cihat | last3=Rochette | first3=Pierre | last4=Khatib | first4=Samir | last5=Vialet | first5=Amélie | last6=Boulbes | first6=Nicolas | last7=Bourlès | first7=Didier L | last8=Demory | first8=François | last9=Guipert | first9=Gaspard | last10=Mayda | first10=Serdar | last11=Titov | first11=Vadim V | last12=Vidal | first12=Laurence | last13=De Lumley | first13=Henry | doi-access=free }}]
| Homo erectus[{{cite journal | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.20739 | volume=135 | issue=1 | title=FirstHomo erectus from Turkey and implications for migrations into temperate Eurasia | journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology | pages=110–16 | pmid=18067194 | date=January 2008 | last1 = Kappelman | first1 = J | last2 = Alçiçek | first2 = MC | last3 = Kazanci | first3 = N | last4 = Schultz | first4 = M | last5 = Ozkul | first5 = M | last6 = Sen | first6 = S}}]
| 2002
| Turkey
| M. Cihat Alçiçek
| |
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| Daka
| 1.00
| Homo erectus
| 1997
| Ethiopia
| Henry Gilbert
| |
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| Sangiran 4
| 1.00
| Homo erectus
| 1939
| Indonesia
| G.H.R. von Koenigswald
| |
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| Sangiran 2
| 1.15±0.45
| Homo erectus
| 1937
| Indonesia
| G.H.R. von Koenigswald
| |
File:Bula UA31. Homo erectus.jpg
| Madam Buya[{{cite web|url=http://archive.archaeology.org/9809/newsbriefs/eritrea.html|title=New Skull from Eritrea – Archaeology Magazine Archive|website=archive.archaeology.org}}]
| 1.00
| Homo erectus
| 1997
| Eritrea
| Ernesto Abbate
| National Museum of Eritrea |
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| ATD6-15 and ATD6-69
(Niño de la Gran Dolina 342)
| 0.900[{{cite journal | last1 = Parés | first1 = J. M. | last2 = Arnold | first2 = L. | last3 = Duval | first3 = M. | last4 = Demuro | first4 = M. | last5 = Pérez-González | first5 = A. | last6 = Bermúdez de Castro | first6 = J. M. | last7 = Carbonell | first7 = E. | last8 = Arsuaga | first8 = J. L. | year = 2013 | title = Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): new paleomagnetic results | url = https://eprints.ucm.es/27936/1/1-s2.0-S0305440313002197-1main.pdf| journal = Journal of Archaeological Science | volume = 40 | issue = 12| pages = 4586–95 | doi = 10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.013 | bibcode = 2013JArSc..40.4586P }}]
| Homo antecessor or Homo erectus
| 1994
| Spain
| Bermúdez & Arsuaga
| Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain) |
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| Trinil 2 Pithecanthropus-1 or Java Man[{{cite web|url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/trinil-2|title=Trinil 2|date=24 January 2010}}]
| 0.850±0.150
| Homo erectus
| 1891
| Indonesia
| Eugène Dubois
| Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden |
File:Atlanthropus mauritanicus.jpg
| Ternifine 2-3 now Tighennif[{{cite web |url=http://archaeology.about.com/od/tterms/g/ternifine.htm |title=Ternifine or Tighenif |access-date=28 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711131317/http://archaeology.about.com/od/tterms/g/ternifine.htm |archive-date=11 July 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}]
| 0.70
| Homo erectus
| 1954
| Algeria
| C. Arambourg & B. Hoffstetter
| |
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| Sangiran 17[{{cite web|url=http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/sangiran17.html|title=Modernhumanorigins.net|website=www.modernhumanorigins.net|access-date=2007-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106121926/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/sangiran17.html|archive-date=2010-01-06|url-status=usurped}}]
| 0.70
| Homo erectus
| 1969
| Indonesia
| S. Sartono
| |
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| Peking Man
| 0.73±0.50[{{cite journal | last1 = Shen | first1 = G | last2 = Gao | first2 = X | last3 = Gao | first3 = B | last4 = Granger | first4 = De | year = 2009 | title = Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with (26)Al/(10)Be burial dating | journal = Nature | volume = 458 | issue = 7235| pages = 198–200 | doi = 10.1038/nature07741 | bibcode = 2009Natur.458..198S | pmid = 19279636 | s2cid = 19264385 }}]
| Homo erectus
| 1921
| China
| Davidson Black
| Lost/stolen |
|Heidel
|0.60
|Homo Aeserniensis
or
Homo Heidelbergensis
|2014
|Italy
|
|National Paleolithic Museum of Isernia |
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| Nanjing Man
| 0.60±0.02
| Homo erectus
| 1993
| China
| Liu Luhong
| |
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| Bodo[{{cite web|url=http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/bodo.html|title=Modernhumanorigins.net|website=www.modernhumanorigins.net|access-date=2007-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106121203/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/bodo.html|archive-date=2010-01-06|url-status=usurped}}]
| 0.600
| Homo heidelbergensis or Homo erectus
| 1976
| Ethiopia
| A. Asfaw
| |
|Benjamina[{{Cite web |last=Romero |first=Lorena Sánchez |date=2020-11-27 |title=Prehistoria - Benjamina, la niña pre neandertal más querida de Atapuerca |url=https://quo.eldiario.es/ser-humano/q2011650310/neandertal-atapuerca-benjamina/ |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Quo |language=es}}][{{Cite journal |last1=Gracia |first1=Ana |last2=Martínez-Lage |first2=Juan F. |last3=Arsuaga |first3=Juan-Luis |last4=Martínez |first4=Ignacio |last5=Lorenzo |first5=Carlos |last6=Pérez-Espejo |first6=Miguel-Ángel |date=2010-06-01 |title=The earliest evidence of true lambdoid craniosynostosis: the case of "Benjamina", a Homo heidelbergensis child |journal=Child's Nervous System |language=en |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=723–727 |doi=10.1007/s00381-010-1133-y |pmid=20361331 |s2cid=33720448 |issn=1433-0350|doi-access=free }}]
|0.53
|Homo neanderthalensis
|2001-2001
|Spain
|Ana Gracia Téllez
| |
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| Mauer 1 (Heidelberg Man)
| 0.50
| Homo heidelbergensis
| 1907
| Germany
| Daniel Hartmann
| Heidelberg University |
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| Saldanha man[{{Cite book|title = The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia)|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EPKGnF7oZXgC|publisher = John Wiley & Sons|date = 2005|isbn = 978-0471326441|first1 = Jeffrey H.|last1 = Schwartz|first2 = Ian|last2 = Tattersall|pages=248–55}}.]
| 0.50
| Homo rhodesiensis
| 1953
| South Africa
|
| |
File:Boxgrove-Tibia.jpg
| Boxgrove Man
| 0.50[{{cite journal | last1 = Streeter | display-authors = etal | year = 2001 | title = "Margret. "Histomorphometric age assessment of the Boxgrove 1 tibial diaphysis | journal = Journal of Human Evolution | volume = 40 | issue = 4| pages = 331–38 | doi = 10.1006/jhev.2001.0460 | pmid = 11312585 }}]
| Homo heidelbergensis
| 1994
| UK
|
| Natural History Museum |
File:Homme de Tautavel.jpg
| Arago 21 (Tautavel Man)
| 0.45
| Homo erectus
| 1971
| France
| Henry de Lumley
| |
File:Ceprano updated reconstruction.jpg
| Ceprano Man[{{cite web|last1=Di Vincenzo|first1=Fabio|last2=Bernardini|first2=Federico|last3=Manzi|first3=Giorgio|title=The Ceprano calvarium, twenty years after. A new generation of (digital) studies|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Italo_Biddittu|website=ResearchGate|access-date=26 October 2017}}][{{cite news|last1=Fraioli|first1=Luca|title=Dopo 400mila anni, ecco il vero volto dell'Uomo di Ceprano|url=http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2017/10/25/news/dopo_400mila_anni_ecco_il_vero_volto_dell_uomo_di_ceprano-179294030/|access-date=26 October 2017}}]
| 0.450±0.050
| Homo cepranensis /Homo heidelbergensis
| 1994
| Ceprano, Italy
| Italo Biddittu
| Servizio di antropologia, Soprintendenza ai beni culturali, Regione Lazio, Italy |
File:Skull4 3quarters Sima de los Huesos.jpg
|Agamenón[{{Cite web |date=2019-10-11 |title="Agamenón", el homínido más famoso de Atapuerca, no estaba sordo |url=https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/agamenon-hominido-mas-famoso-atapuerca-no-estaba-sordo_14792 |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=historia.nationalgeographic.com.es |language=es}}]
|0.43
|Homo neanderthalensis[{{Cite journal |last=Stringer |first=Chris |date=2012 |title=The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.21311 |journal=Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews |language=en |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=101–107 |doi=10.1002/evan.21311|pmid=22718477 |s2cid=205826399 |url-access=subscription }}]
|1997
|Spain
|Paleontological teams
|Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain) |
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| Miguelón
| 0.40
| Homo neanderthalensis
| 1992
| Spain
| Bermúdez, Arsuaga & Carbonell
| Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain) |
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| Aroeira 3
| 0.40
| Homo heidelbergensis
| 2014
| Portugal
| {{ill|João Zilhão|de|vertical-align=sup}}
| Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon |
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| Salé cranium[{{cite book |editor=Eric Delson |editor2=Ian Tattersall |editor3=John Van Couvering |editor4=Alison S. Brooks |year=2004 |title=Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory: Second Edition |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1135582289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GFGsswTIO8C |access-date=9 August 2015 |page=624|last1=Delson |first1=Eric |last2=Tattersall |first2=Ian |last3=Couvering |first3=John Van |last4=Brooks |first4=Alison S. }}][{{cite web |url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/sal%C3%A9 |title=Salé |author=Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |work= What does it mean to be human? |access-date=18 May 2014|date=2010-01-30}}][{{cite book |author=J. J. Jaeger |year=1975 |chapter=The mammalian faunas and hominid fossils of the Middle Pleistocene of the Maghreb |editor1=K. W. Butzer |editor2=G. L. Isaac |title=After the Australopithecines |pages=399–418 |location=Den Hage |isbn=978-9027976291}}]
| 0.40-0.20
| Homo sapiens?[{{Citation |last=Bräuer |first=G. |title=Middle Pleistocene Diversity in Africa and the Origin of Modern Humans |date=2012 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2929-2_15 |work=Modern Origins: A North African Perspective |pages=221–240 |editor-last=Hublin |editor-first=Jean-Jacques |access-date=2023-08-13 |series=Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Netherlands |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-94-007-2929-2_15 |isbn=978-94-007-2929-2 |editor2-last=McPherron |editor2-first=Shannon P.|url-access=subscription }}]
| 1971
| Morocco
| Quarry worker
| |
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| Swanscombe Man[Natural History Museum [https://web.archive.org/web/20160403075311/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/whats-new/2014/02/11/neanderthal-woman-in-pieces Neanderthal woman in pieces] Retrieved 16 May 2018]
| 0.40
| Homo neanderthalensis
| 1935, 1936, 1955
| UK
| Alvan T Marston, John J Wymer and Adrian Gibson
| Natural History Museum |
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| Ndutu[http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/ndutu {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194444/http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection/ndutu |date=2016-03-04 }} Image at Smithsonian][{{Cite journal |last1=Montiel |first1=Gustavo |last2=Lorenzo |first2=Carlos |date=2023 |title=A New Virtual Reconstruction of the Ndutu Cranium |journal=Heritage |language=en |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=2822–2850 |doi=10.3390/heritage6030151 |issn=2571-9408 |doi-access=free }}]
| 0.45±.04
| Homo neanderthalensis affinities
| 1973
| Tanzania
| A.A. Mturi
| |
| Hexian Man[{{cite web |url=http://peterbrown-palaeoanthropology.net/hexian.html |title=Hexian |publisher=Peter Brown's Australian & Asian Palaeoanthropology |author=Peter Brown |access-date=2014-05-18}}][{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130606191829/http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/pa830.html Article title]}} Hexian PA830 image at Modern Human Origins]
| 0.412±0.025[{{cite journal |author=Rainer Grün |author2=Pei-Hua Huang |author3=Wanpo Huang |author4=Frank McDermott |author5=Alan Thorne |author6=Chris B. Stringer |author7=Ge Yan |year=1998 |title=ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian, Anhui Province, China |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=555–564 |doi=10.1006/jhev.1997.0211 |issn=0047-2484 |pmid=9650100|bibcode=1998JHumE..34..555G }}]
| Homo erectus
| 1980-1981[{{Cite journal |last=Maolin |first=Wu |date=1983 |title=Homo erectus from Hexian, Anhui found in 1981 |url=http://www.anthropol.ac.cn/EN/abstract/abstract79.shtml |journal=Acta Anthropologica Sinica |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=109–205}}]
| Hexian, China
|
| |
File:Balanica BH1.jpg
| BH-1
| 0.40[{{Cite journal|last1=Skinner|first1=Matthew M.|last2=de Vries|first2=Dorien|last3=Gunz|first3=Philipp|last4=Kupczik|first4=Kornelius|last5=Klassen|first5=R. Paul|last6=Hublin|first6=Jean-Jacques|last7=Roksandic|first7=Mirjana|date=2016-04-01|title=A dental perspective on the taxonomic affinity of the Balanica mandible (BH-1)|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|language=en|volume=93|pages=63–81|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.010|pmid=27086056|issn=0047-2484|doi-access=free|bibcode=2016JHumE..93...63S }}]
|Homo heidelbergensis
|
| Mala Balanica, Serbia
|
| |
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| Gawis cranium
| 0.350±0.150
| Homo erectus/Homo sapiens
| 2006
| Ethiopia
| Asahmed Humet
| |
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| Steinheim Skull
| 0.35
| Homo heidelbergensis
| 1933
| Germany
|
| |
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| Dinaledi Chamber hominins
| 0.325±0.090[{{cite journal|title=The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa|first1=Paul HGM|last1=Dirks|first2=Eric M.|last2=Roberts|first3=Hannah|last3=Hilbert-Wolf|first4=Jan D.|last4=Kramers|first5=John|last5=Hawks|first6=Anthony|last6=Dosseto|first7=Mathieu|last7=Duval|first8=Marina|last8=Elliott|first9=Mary|last9=Evans|first10=Rainer|last10=Grün|first11=John|last11=Hellstrom|first12=Andy IR|last12=Herries|first13=Renaud|last13=Joannes-Boyau|first14=Tebogo V.|last14=Makhubela|first15=Christa J.|last15=Placzek|first16=Jessie|last16=Robbins|first17=Carl|last17=Spandler|first18=Jelle|last18=Wiersma|first19=Jon|last19=Woodhead|first20=Lee R.|last20=Berger|date=9 May 2017|journal=eLife|volume=6|pages=e24231|doi=10.7554/eLife.24231|pmid=28483040|pmc=5423772 |doi-access=free }}]
| Homo naledi
| 2013
| South Africa
| Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker
| University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) |
File:Montmaurin la niche mandible.png
| Montmaurin-La Niche mandible
| ~0.25
| Homo heidelbergensis
| 1949
| Haute-Garonne, France
| Louis Mèroc
| Musée de l'Homme |