Homo heidelbergensis (Steinheim skull)(1979rp45)

3D Model

Homo heidelbergensis

Location: Steinheim an dur Murr near Stuttgart, Germany.

Age: 350,000 - 250,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 197 mm; width, 129 mm; height, 131 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp45 (cast). Skull discovered in 1933 as an isolated find in a gravel quarry near Steinheim, Germany, and subsequently excavated by Fritz Berckhemer and Max Bock. Formerly classified as Homo steinheimensis. Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Jordyn Gray.