Journal article
New dates for the Fontéchevade (Charente, France) Homo remains
Abstract
Homo I from the site of Fontéchevade, France, has long been an anomaly in the European fossil record. The specimen is a fragment of human frontal bone that lacks a supraorbital torus and appears to belong to an anatomically modern Homo sapiens. However, the level from which it was recovered in 1947 was dated on the basis of associated faunal and lithic material to the last interglacial or earlier. As a result, Homo I has been interpreted, among …
Authors
Chase PG; Debénath A; Dibble HL; McPherron SP; Schwarcz HP; Stafford TW; Tournepiche J-F
Journal
Journal of Human Evolution, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 217–221
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.09.003
ISSN
0047-2484