A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) depression of Eritrea

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6684, 1998, Pages 458-460

  Abbate, Ernesto ^a,d   Albianelli, Andrea ^a   Azzaroli, Augusto ^a   Benvenuti, Marco ^a   Tesfamariam, Berhane ^a   Bruni, Piero ^a   Cipriani, Nicola ^a   Clarke, Ronald J ^b   Ficcarelli, Giovanni ^a   Macchiarelli, Roberto ^a   Napoleons, Giovanni ^a   Papini, Mauro ^a   Rook, Lorenzo ^c   Sagri, Mario ^a   Teclei, Tewelde Medhin ^a   Torret, Danilo ^a   Villa, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Eritrea National Museum   (Eritrea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^d Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L Pigorini   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; ERITREA; FOSSIL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

ANIMALS; ERITREA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SKULL;

ERITREA;

EID: 0032482414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/30954     Document Type: Article

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