2001
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.151259998
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A cranium for the earliest Europeans: Phylogenetic position of the hominid from Ceprano, Italy

Abstract: The human fossil evidence unequivocally pertaining to the first inhabitants of Europe at present includes the sample from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain) and the incomplete adult calvaria discovered near Ceprano, in Southern Latium (Italy). On the basis of regional correlations and a series of absolute dates, the age of the Ceprano hominid is estimated to range between 800 and 900 kilo-annum (ka). In addition, the association with archaic (Mode 1) Paleolithic findings from the same area is suggested. After the completed… Show more

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“…It is also seen in the Early Pleistocene Atapuerca Gran Dolina specimen ATD6-15. However, the Arago 21 and Ceprano specimens depart from this condition, resembling the Middle Pleistocene African specimens from Kabwe and Bodo in which the two supraorbital arches are well separated at the glabella and are flatter and less curved (17,18). Despite the loss of the outer surface over much of the supraorbital torus, it is clear to us that the supraorbital arches in Aroeira 3 are fused in a swollen glabella (i.e., unlike the Ceprano and Arago 21 crania, the supraorbital torus in Aroeira 3 is not medially concave).…”
Section: Significancementioning
confidence: 88%
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“…It is also seen in the Early Pleistocene Atapuerca Gran Dolina specimen ATD6-15. However, the Arago 21 and Ceprano specimens depart from this condition, resembling the Middle Pleistocene African specimens from Kabwe and Bodo in which the two supraorbital arches are well separated at the glabella and are flatter and less curved (17,18). Despite the loss of the outer surface over much of the supraorbital torus, it is clear to us that the supraorbital arches in Aroeira 3 are fused in a swollen glabella (i.e., unlike the Ceprano and Arago 21 crania, the supraorbital torus in Aroeira 3 is not medially concave).…”
Section: Significancementioning
confidence: 88%
“…S6). Among European Middle Pleistocene specimens, this feature is found only in a few large, robust individuals, including the Ceprano and Arago 47 crania and Atapuerca SH Cranium 4 (18,23). In the Aroeira 3 cranium the parietal bone is ∼9 mm thick near the bregma and is 10.2 mm thick at the thickest point along the break (in the area of the parietal boss).…”
Section: Significancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Location of the sites mentioned in the paper. Circles for hominin sites -B&F: Barranco Leó n and Fuentenueva-3 (Scott et al, 2007), Bg: Bogatyri (Bosinski, 2006), Cep: Ceprano (Manzi et al, 2001), D: Dmanisi (Gabunia et al, 2000) (Leroy and Roiron, 1996), BO: Bò bila Ordis (Leroy, 2008), Cey: Ceyssac (Ablin, 1991), Ga: Garraf 1 PII & PIII (Suc and Cravatte, 1982), Le: Leffe (Muttoni et al, 2007), MJ: Montalbano Jonico (Joannin et al, 2008) a predominant forcing on vegetation by obliquity during the Early Pleistocene (Dupont and Leroy, 1995). So from this brief review we can see that the fluctuation in the oxygen isotope curves have been paralleled in the vegetation.…”
Section: Vegetation Setting For Early Pleistocene Of Europementioning
confidence: 99%
“…By about 1 Ma, they had penetrated into higher northern latitudes including those of China and Europe (Dennell 2003). European evidence for earliest occupation is primarily based on lithic assemblages from Orce in southeastern Spain at c. 1 Ma (Ores et al 2000) and Monte Poggiolo in Italy at 900 ka (Milliken 1999), and from Atapuerca in northern Spain where the 850-800 ka Homo antecessor has been found (Falgu~res 2003;Cuenca-Besc6s et al, this volume), and Ceprano in Italy where the 900-800 ka Homo cepranensis has been recovered (Ascenzi et al 2000;Manzi et al 2001;Mallegni et al 2003). Manzi (2004) considered Homo antecessor (from Atapuerca) and H. cepranensis (from Ceprano) to be closely related to each other, and puzzlingly more similar to later African lineages than European ones.…”
Section: Homininsmentioning
confidence: 99%