Homo sapiens
Skull With Reconstruction Oase - 35,000 Years Ago
Oase 1 (mandible) and Oase 2 (cranium) were both discovered in the Peştera cu Oase, Romania. The mandible was found first, in 2002, by speleologists Milota, Bîlgăr, and Sarcină. The cranium, which is from a different individual, was found by a team led by Trinkaus and Zilhão between 2003-2005. It has a sagittal cut revealing details of the endocranium. A 3D scan printed output was provided to Bone Clones by Racoviță Institute of Speleology. From there Bone Clones cleaned up the scan lines and reconstructed the missing details and elements in consultation with Erik Trinkaus and Hélène Rougier and produced this cast. These are the earliest and among the most complete anatomically modern human remains found to date from this period in Europe.
Although the brain size of modern humans averages 1350 cc, that of early H. sapiens was larger and could achieve 1500 cc. Classic anatomically modern human features visible on the skull and mandible include the presence of a protruding chin, a higher brain case, a tall forehead, and the absence of large thick brow ridges
Read more Australian Museum's Homo sapiens
- Hominin Skulls - Select a Species
- Ardipithecus kadabba
- Ardipithecus ramidus
- Australopithecus afarensis
- Australopithecus africanus
- Australopithecus anamensis
- Australopithecus garhi
- Australopithecus sediba
- Denisovans
- Homo antecessor
- Homo erectus
- Homo floresiensis
- Homo habilis
- Homo heidelbergensis
- Homo naledi
- Homo neanderthalensis
- Homo rudolfensis
- Homo sapiens
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Ororrin tugenensis
- Paranthropus aethiopicus
- Paranthropus boisei
- Paranthropus robustus
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
