Sentences with phrase «preserved erectus»

According to these reports a well preserved erectus - type skull has been uncovered in a gravel pit near Reilingen.

Not exact matches

An entire skull belonging to an extinct hominin that lived 1.8 million years ago has been found in Georgia — the earliest completely preserved specimen ever found and confirmation that the species it belonged to, Homo erectus was far more variable in appearance than originally thought.

Continued work in this region by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and an international team of collaborators, has revealed a hominin trace fossil discovery of unprecedented scale for this time period — five distinct sites that preserve a total of 97 tracks created by at least 20 different presumed Homo erectus individuals.

Using novel analytical techniques, they have demonstrated that these H. erectus footprints preserve evidence of a modern human style of walking and a group structure that is consistent with human - like social behaviours.