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Contact: John Kappelman
jkappelman@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0055
University of Texas at Austin
Caption: John Kappelman, anthropology professor at The University of Texas at Austin, holds a plaster cast replica of the cranium of the newly discovered young male Homo erectus specimen from western Turkey. The fossil is 500,000 years old and was recovered from a block of travertine stone as it was being sawed into tiles for the building stone market.
Credit: Marsha Miller, The University of Texas at Austin
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