Homo sapiens (Skhul 5) (1979rp32)

3D Model

Homo sapiens

Location: Mugharet es-Skhul, Wadi el-Mughara, Israel.

Age: 120,000 - 80,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 219 mm; width, 146 mm; height, 149 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp32 (cast). Fossil called Skhul 5, discovered in 1932 by T.D. McCown and H. Movius, Jr., and restored by C.E. Snow. Nearly complete cranium. 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 Steve Davis.