John Kappelman with Cast of Turkish Fossil (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

John Kappelman with Cast of Turkish Fossil

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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.

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Marsha Miller, The University of Texas at Austin

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