(XX) Endocranial cast from the Homo Erectus Reilingensis

Endocranial cast from the Homo Erectus Reilingensis

Found in May 1978 during the excavation of a quarry pond near Reilingen, germany.The four skull parts, fitting perfectly together, were send to the natural history museum in Stuttgart.Finally in 1987 the anthropologist Alfred Czarnetzki from Tübingen discovered that the skull was a homo Erectus. He lined the find morphological between the Mauer Jaw (aprox. 600.000 years old) and the Steinheim female skull (aprox. 250.000 years old). Due to this the Reilinger Man lived between 385 to 250.000 years b.c. in the Holstein interglacial.Sands that were sticked to the inner plate of the skull showed to Czarnetzki, that they were identical with Ground layers from the middle pleistocene.Due to this the Reilinger Man and the Steinheim woman must haved lived in the same time, wich means, that the late H.Erectus and the early H.Sapiens have existed parallel, which was not believed so far. A sample from the Os occipitalis was dated later to 230.000 years old. The original skull is kept in the collection of the University in Tübingen today.

This cast is handcoloured and made of Epoxi. The colours may be a little differend than shown on the pictures. The handcraft makes every cast unique.