Key facts
- Catalog number span no
- No. 944/1
- Common name
- Argil
- Species
- Homo heidelbergensis , Homo neanderthalensis
- Age
- 430-385 ka
- Place discovered
- near Ceprano , Frosinone , Italy
- Date discovered
- March 13, 1994
- Discovered by
- Construction crew
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Encyclopedic overview
Ceprano Man, Argil, and Ceprano Calvarium, is a Middle Pleistocene archaic human fossil, a single skull cap (calvarium), accidentally unearthed in a highway construction project in 1994 near Ceprano in the Province of Frosinone, Italy. It was initially considered Homo cepranensis, Homo erectus, or possibly Homo antecessor; but in recent studies, most regard it either as a form of Homo heidelbergensis sharing affinities with African forms, or an early morph of Neanderthal.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Homo cepranensis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.