Hominini Collection (page 10)

Homo habilis fossil bed
Reconstruction of a Homo habilis (1 to 2 million years ago) living floor at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. (Lower Palaeolithic)

Sivapithecus & human mandible
A human mandible (on the left) compared with a Sivapithecus mandible. Sivapithecus, an extinct ape from the Miocene, is believed to have lived 9 million years ago

Homo sapiens brain
A cast of a human (Homo sapiens) brain held at the Natural History Museum, London

A Homo habilis hammerstone
A hammerstone tool discovered at the Olduvia Gorge, Tanzania dating back to between 1.85 million years ago to 1.6 million years ago

Homo sapiens, Australopithecus, Neanderthal and Pan troglody
A display of models of hominids, including human, Australopithecus, Neanderthal and chimpanzee, on display in the Life Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Homo sapiens, Human cranium with brain
A model of a human (Homo sapiens) skull showing the brain the brain case. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

A Swanscombe Hand Axe
One of many hand axes that have been discovered at the Homo neanderthalensis site of Swanscombe, Kent which was inhabited about 500, 000 to 300, 000 years ago

H. neanderthalensis (Neanderthal 1) & H. neanderthalensis (S
A frontal view of the cranium of Neanderthal man discovered in Neander Valley, Germany with a Homo neanderthalensis cranium discovered at Swanscombe, UK

Human biology
Find out about the different kinds of memory we use, the Human biology gallery

Homo Heidelbergensis, Rhodesian or Broken Hill Man (Broken H
The cranium and plaster cast belonging to Broken Hill Man (Homo Heidelbergensis) discovered at Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, Zambia by T. Zwigelaar in June 1921. It dates back 130, 000 years

Modern Homo sapiens. A range of human remains (cranial and p
Cranium fragments belonging to Modern Homo sapiens dating back 12, 000 years ago discovered at Goughs Cave, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

Modern Homo sapiens cranium (Skhul V)
A front view of a cast of Skhul V discovered in 1932 on Mount Carmel, Israel. The original specimen is held at Harvards Peabody Museum. This specimen dates between 80, 000 and 100, 000 years old

Modern Homo sapiens skull (Skhul V)
A three-quarter view of a cast reconstruction of fragments of skull discovered at the Skhul Cave, Israel. This specimen dates back to 105, 000 years ago. It is known as Skhul V

Homo sapiens skeleton
An illustration showing a male human skeleton, page 40 from Histoire de la Nature by P Belon, 1555. In the publication this is ompared with skeleton of a bird on page 41. (See image 6887)

Australopithecus africanus, the Taung child
A cast of a skull of Australopithecus africanus from Taung, Cape Province, South Africa. The original skull, thought to be of a child aged between 3-4 was discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart

Homo erectus cranium (Trinil 2)
A cranium (cast) belonging to Homo erectus discovered at Trinil near to the River Solo, Java, Indonesia by Eugene Dubois in 1891

Pleistocene hunters, wider view
Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago - 11, 000 years ago) hunting party with mammoths and rhinoceros

Excavations, Norfolk 2006
A team of anthropologists busy working on excavations revealing ancient human occupation on the Norfolk coast, 2006. Animal remains

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