Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Discovery of Homo erectus Calvarium at Ceprano, Central Italy
AU  - Ascenzi A
AU  - Segre AG
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 35
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 241
EP  - 246
KW  - Calvarium
KW  - Homo erectus
KW  - Lower Palaeolithic
KW  - Earlier Pleistocene
KW  - Ceprano
KW  - Italy
N2  - 
N2  - On March 13th, 1994, during digging for the construction of a highway through the Campo Grande area near Ceprano, a town in southern Latium situated about 55 miles from Rome, highly mineralized fragments of a calvarium damaged by a bulldozer were found in situ by Italo Biddittu, a member of the Italian Institute of Human Palaeontology. The remains come from a clay layer below sandy volcaniclastic gravels whose age is estimated by K-Ar to be 700 Kyr. So, the age of the calvarium is to be estimated as over 700 Kyr and probably slightly over 800 Kyr. The shape and the capacity of the calvarium show the basic features of Homo erectus.
ER  -