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Homo heidelbergensis Kabwe cranium Map of Africa, Europe, and Asia showing fossil sites of Homo heidelbergensis (marked with yellow triangles) and Homo sapiens, including Cro-Magnon (marked with green circles). The map highlights key archaeological locations across these continents, with an inset providing additional detail for fossil sites in Western Europe. A map of the Eastern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene, showing the geographic extents of several species of Homo that are thought to have existed at that time. map of early human species
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Homo heidelbergensis
Homo heidelbergensis lived between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago in Africa,...
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Kabwe cranium
The Kabwe cranium, found in 1921 at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia),...
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sites of Homo heidelbergensis and Homo sapiens remains
Sites of Homo heidelbergensis and Homo sapiens remains in Africa,...
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A map showing the ranges of various species of Homo that coexisted with one another during the second half of the Pleistocene Epoch.
Several species of Homo—including H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis,...
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map of early human species
Map depicting Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis sites of Africa,...
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