Homo erectus calvaria, discovered in the Ethiopian Rift Valley in 1997
Daka calvaria
Catalog no.
BOU-VP-2/66
Common name
Daka calvaria
Species
Homo erectus
Age
1 million years
Place discovered
Ethiopia
Date discovered
1997
Restoration based on evidence from the Daka Member, Ethiopia
The Daka calvaria, otherwise known as the Dakaskull (a skull cap with the cranial base), or specimen number BOU-VP-2/66, is a Homo erectus specimen from the Daka Member of the Bouri Formation in the Middle Awash Study Area of the Ethiopian Rift Valley.[1][2]
It is reported that the metrics and morphological attributes of the Daka calvaria center it firmly within the Homo erectus lineage. The resemblance to the Asian counterparts indicates that early African and Eurasian fossil hominids represent a subdivision of a widespread paleospecies. Daka's anatomical intermediacy between "earlier and later African fossils provides evidence of evolutionary change. Its temporal and geographic position indicates that African H. erectus was the ancestor of Homo sapiens.”[3]
It was discovered in 1997 by Henry Gilbert. With it are several other H. erectus specimens (leg bones, cranial fragments, and a toothless mandible), a large assortment of Acheulean industry stone tools,[4] and several hundred animal fossils.[5] The locality dates to about one million years old.
^Asfaw, B.; Gilbert, W. H.; Beyene, Y.; Hart, W. K.; Renne, P. R.; WoldeGabriel, G.; et al. (2002). "Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia". Nature. 416 (6878): 317–320. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..317A. doi:10.1038/416317a. PMID 11907576. S2CID 4432263.
^Gilbert, W. H. & Asfaw, B. (2008). Homo erectus: Pleistocene evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25120-5.
^Asfaw, Berhane; Gilbert, W. Henry; Beyene, Yonas; Hart, William K.; Renne, Paul R.; WoldeGabriel, Giday; Vrba, Elisabeth S.; White, Tim D. (March 2002). "Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia". Nature. 416 (6878): 317–320. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..317A. doi:10.1038/416317a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 11907576. S2CID 4432263.
^de Heinzelin, J.; Clark, D.; Schick, K. & Gilbert, H. (2000). The Acheulean and the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Middle Awash Valley Ethiopia. Tervuren, Belgium: Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy, Royal Museum of Central Africa. OCLC 46917504.
^"Middle Awash Project". Berkeley. Retrieved 22 April 2020. Choose "Formation=Bouri" to get over 700 fossils
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