The Petralona skull, exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
Common name
Petralona skull
Species
Homo, species uncertain
Place discovered
Chalkidiki, Greece
Date discovered
1960
Discovered by
Christos Sariannidis
The Petralona skull is the skull of a hominid found in Petralona Cave, about 35 km (22 mi) south-east of Thessaloniki city on the Chalkidiki peninsula, Greece. According to Aris Poulianos, head of the excavation team since 1965, it was found by a villager, Christos Sariannidis, in 1960. It was sticking to the cave wall in a small cavern of the cave, called "Layer 10" by Poulianos, about 30 cm (12 in) above ground, held by sinter.[citation needed] Its lower jaw is missing and it was "encrusted by brown calcite soon after the death of the individual".
The Petralona skull in situ, covered by stalagmite.
The Petralonaskull is the skull of a hominid found in Petralona Cave, about 35 km (22 mi) south-east of Thessaloniki city on the Chalkidiki peninsula...
"PetralonaSkull". The on-site Museum display a selection of the objects that have been found in the cave. In 2011, the cave and museum of Petralona came...
by local villagers searching for a spring in the mountainside. The Petralonaskull, specifically, was discovered in 1960 when it was removed from a rock...
and skull are distinct from European Neanderthals and earlier European hominids, such as remains found in Petralona cave and Atapuerca. The skull is low...
pointed out similarities between the Kabwe 1 and the Greek Petralonaskulls to the skulls of modern humans (H. sapiens or H. s. sapiens) and Neanderthals...
Arthur Smith Woodward (1921) to classify Kabwe 1 (the "Kabwe skull" or "Broken Hill skull", also "Rhodesian Man"), a Middle Stone Age fossil recovered...
Petralona cave, in which the oldest European hominid skull was found. The village of Petralona, Chalkidiki is on the old Thessaloniki–Nea Moudania national...
Aniene River Valley of Northern Rome, Italy in 1929 and 1935. The two human skulls that derive from Homo neanderthalensis were located in a quarry along the...
The Steinheim skull is a fossilized skull of a Homo neanderthalensis or Homo heidelbergensis found on 24 July 1933 near Steinheim an der Murr, Germany...
ISBN 978-0-231-11040-2. LCCN 98071262. Cohen, Saul B., ed. (1998a). "Petralona Cave". The Columbia Gazetteer of the World. Vol. 3: P to Z. New York,...
praeglacialis and V. hassani. V. praeglacialis was discovered in the Petralona Cave in Chalkidiki, Greece. The age of the deposits (Early Pleistocene)...
supported by later authors. List of human fossils also called the Broken Hill skull; Rhodesian Man is a Middle Paleolithic fossil assigned by Arthur Smith Woodward...
The Ndutu skull is the partial cranium of a hominin that has been assigned variously to late Homo erectus, Homo rhodesiensis, and early Homo sapiens,...
dissimilarities to Homo habilis, Arago, Swanscombe, Broken Hill, and Petralona. They found similarity with human children and some likeness to the Sangiran...
Arago, Petralona and Vertesszolos as H. erectus or a similar taxon. They suggested that Tighenif No. 3 mandible is a good fit for the skull, and hinted...
N. I. (6 August 1981). "ESR-dating of the fossil hominid cranium from Petralona Cave, Greece". Nature. 292 (5823): 533–36. Bibcode:1981Natur.292..533H...
sand mine be encouraged to look out for fossils, after the well-preserved skull of a straight-tusked elephant had come to light there in 1887. Schoetensack...
fragmentary (Shanidar III - field catalog no. 384 III), and for one only the skull was excavated at that time (Shanidar II - field catalog no. 618 III). Two...
yielded Neanderthal and Homo sapiens fossils from the Palaeolithic era. One skull fossil, given the name Apidima 1, shows a mixture of modern human and primitive...
marks on skull fragments specify perimortem skull fracturing for removing the brain. In 1985, anthropologist Trinkaus hypothesized that the skulls were broken...
indications of a skull. Initially, the archeologists only analyzed the top of the cranium and due to the small size believed that the skull belonged to a...
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