Not exact matches
It is interesting that the most similar
skulls in our sample come from
recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern
humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»
A nearly complete
skull of a mysterious member of the
human family was unveiled this week at the same time as researchers reported a surprisingly
recent age for this ancient cave dweller in South Africa.
The team analyzed the projection of the brow ridge, facial shape, and cranial volume of 13 early Homo sapiens that lived before 80,000 years ago; 41 modern
humans that lived 38,000 to 10,000 years ago; and
skulls from a global sample of 1367
recent humans.
The shapes and sizes of thousands of
skulls from all over the globe point to a single origin in sub-Saharan Africa for modern
humans, according to a
recent study.
It is similar in shape to
recent African
skulls as well as to European
skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern
humans in the Levant.
The partial
human skull from Longlin Cave and the
human calotte, partial mandibles and teeth from Maludong both present a range of individual features and a composite of characters not seen among Pleistocene or
recent populations of H. sapiens.
In a
recent interview with Gamasutra, Playdead sound designer and composer Martin Stig Andersen talked about how his interest in how our voices sound different in our own heads inspired him to use a
human skull as part of the audio recording process for Inside: