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Homo sapiens heidelbergensis

see also
Archaic Archaeological Stage
Neandertals
Denisovans
Archaics

Homo heidelbergensis

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In the News . . .

'Earliest' Evidence of Human Violence -- BBC News (21 November 2011)
Heidelberg Man Links Humans, Neanderthals -- Discovery News (04 May 2011)

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See also Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Ancient Deformed Children Not Always Killed by Parents -- National Geographic News (30 March 2009)
Boxgrove Man: Homo heidelbergensis -- The Boxgrove Project
"Heidelberg Man", "Mauer Jaw", Homo erectus? (was Homo heidelbergensis) -- Jim Foley
Homo heidelbergensis -- Lorraine Dallmeier
The Last Supper Of The Hominids [Homo heidelbergensis] Establishes The Times They Lived At The Sites -- ScienceDaily (14 July 2009)
Top 100 Stories of 2009 #82: Humans Took Care of the Disabled Over 500,000 Years Ago -- Discover (21 December 2009)

Images

Map -- WSU

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen (Broken Hill I)

Homo heidelbergensis -- American Museum of Natural History

The Steinheim Skull -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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General Information

See also Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Homo sapiens

Human Family Tree
National Museum of Natural History

Times to Remember

| Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids | Australopithecus |
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Genus

Species

Variety

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

"Pre-Modern"
("Archaic")

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe . . .

Neanderthal-
ensis?
(Denisovans?)
Neandertal

Homo floresiensis ?

"Hobbit"

sapiens
(prehistoric)

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.

sapiens
(contemporary)

Contemporary
"Moderns"

UMD Students

Special Case: Piltdown

Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8^th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

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