#Homo heidelbergensis

[cmaidaartworkblog]

Some hominids-in-progress I've had on lately: a Neanderthal shifting her weight in preparation to throw a spear, some improvements I made to the meshes and textures for my A. sediba and P. boisei skins, and skins I still have to texture for H. naledi and H. heidelbergensis Digital painting (Photopea, first image), Digital sculpture (Blender, last three images), 2024

[thesilicontribesman]

Skull of Homo heidelbergensis (replica), 600,000-200,000 years ago.

Museum of Archaeology, Durham University

[tyrannoninja]

Kabwe Woman

The subject of this acrylic paintingis based on a nearly 300,000-year-old hominin skull found at the site of Broken Hill near the Zambian town of Kabwe. Paleoanthropologists have traditionally assigned this specimen to the species Homo heidelbergensis, the species believed to be the common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, but a paper in 2021 classified it as a late-surviving member of Homo bodoensis, the species immediately ancestral to modern humans after we split from the Neanderthal and Denisovan lineage. An old nickname for the Kabwe specimen is “Rhodesian Man” (since Zambia was under the thumb of British colonial rule as Northern Rhodesia at the time of the skull’s discovery), but what if it was a woman’s skull instead?

[negreabsolut]

Cultures de l'Edat de Glaç a Europa (120.000 a 15.000 aP).

[skyradiant]

Meet your relatives: The hominids featured in Walking With Cavemen.

[historyfiles]

Homo Antecessor: the name of this species is highly debated amongst the experts, with many considering the remains to be those of Homo heidelbergensis which has theorised origins which have been pushed back to the same timeframe as this species.

[ancientoriginses]

Un estudio innovador ha descubierto las huellas más antiguas de los primeros humanos en Alemania, donde una vez deambuló una familia de humanos primitivos. Acompañadas de huellas de animales, incluida la primera evidencia de elefantes en la región, estas huellas y otras evidencias encontradas ofrecen información increíble sobre la vida antigua.

[sushis4kalyo]

L'homme de Tautavel 💀

Petit tour au musée de Tautavel aujourd'hui.

Très sympa, beaucoup d'outils en pierre. D'ailleurs heureusement qu'ils précisent quel était leur usage car à part certains silex caractéristiques, je n'aurais pas vraiment su les différencier de pierres classiques.

Reconstitution de la grotte. On ne voit pas bien mais le sol est jonché d'ossements d'animaux car ils mangeaient absolument tout : muscle, cervelle, moelle ... Et ce qui me surprend c'est qu'autant ils s'habillaient avec des peaux ... mais ils marchaient pieds nu là dedans ? Ça me surprend qu'ils n'évacuaient pas les os ... Ça devait bien faire mal aux pieds ...

Même qu'entre 2 parties de chasse, l'homme de Tautavel allait faire du mini-golf ! 😂

[theneanderthal]

Alas I am not an actual Neanderthal, but Homo heidelbergensis is fucking cool too.

OK, I’m a Neanderthal, according to this quiz (created by a student at Appalachian State University)

The few. The Proud. The Neanderthals:

[livingmess-doingherbest]

Me when... Me when Benjamina 😭

"most beloved"

"What's more human than the choice to love someone ? "

(quotes from a documentary on prehistoric humans in Europe)

[cilginfizikcilervbi]

Homo Sapiensler Nasıl Hayatta Kaldı?

Homo Sapiensler Nasıl Hayatta Kaldı? Homo sapiensler olarak bu gezegende yaşayan tek insan türü değildik. Bir zamanlar gezegenimizde en az 7 başka insan türüyle daha beraberdik. Peki ama bugüne kadar nasıl sadece biz hayatta kaldık?    Bilim insanlarına göre belki de en yumuşak karnımız, yani başka insanlara, sosyalleşmeye bağımlı olmak, şefkat duymak ve empati kurmak bize avantaj saglamış…

[cmaidaartworkblog]

Here's some hominid soft facial anatomy : )

The model on the right of frame, representing Australopithecus sediba, has been in sporadic progress for over a year now across a few programs, and I was able to create the model on the left of frame by conforming all the A. sediba elements to the Kabwe cranium (belonging to Homo heidelbergensis *or* H. bodoensis by some classifications). That latter process took place entirely in Blender over only a couple days, so I'm pretty happy with this method. While the skulls themselves aren't visible in these screenshots, they are part of the Blender file and were downloaded directly from MorphoSource, which was pretty helpful. Digital sculpture (SculptFab, SculptGL, 3D Builder, Blender), 2023-24

[felipithecus]

Kabwe 1

This is Kabwe 1, a ~300,000 year old cranium of a human ancestor excavated in Zambia in 1921. Its species assignment is still kinda controversial, but I'm going with Homo heidelbergensis.

I love these big brow ridges - would not want to get headbutted by this dude. -- Me, April 2022

[covenawhite66]

Dating to around 480,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene, the Boxgrove fossils are the oldest human remains discovered in the U.K. and were identified as most likely belonging to the ancient human species Homo heidelbergensis.

Scientists are now trying to determine if the Boxgrove humans belong to the same population as other early human fossils discovered at the archaeological site Sima de los Huesos (meaning "pit of bones") in Spain which date to a similar time period.

The new study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, found that the incisor teeth from Boxgrove fit comfortably within the range of fossil teeth found at the Sima site in Spain. Therefore, they could potentially represent similar populations. However, the Boxgrove leg bone, or tibia, differed significantly from those discovered in Spain, suggesting it could be from entirely separate populations.

Homo heidelbergensis is a species of early human first described from a fossil jawbone discovered near Heidelberg in Germany in 1907. It's often argued that this species not only lived in Europe but also in Africa and probably Asia between 700,000 and 300,000 years ago. However, some researchers feel that the name has been applied to too wide a range of fossils from this period of time.

Advances in the field of 3D imaging and virtual reconstruction analysis over the last few years has helped to further our knowledge of fossil teeth and bone morphology and structure across the complex Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil record."

"CT data acquired for this study has been essential to compare the Boxgrove and Sima de los Huesos fossils and other comparative material to help make a coherent story."

[laonuba]

La mujer, y el político saltando el cráneo 5 de Atapuerca.

[skyradiant]

20th anniversary of the fourth and final episode of Walking With Cavemen, “The Survivors.”  The series ended April 23rd, 2003.