Tautavel Man refers to the archaic humans which—from approximately 550,000 to 400,000 years ago—inhabited the Caune de l’Arago, a limestone cave in Tautavel, France. They are generally grouped as part of a long and highly variable lineage of transitional morphs which inhabited the Middle Pleistocene of Europe, and would eventually evolve into the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis). They have been variably assigned to either H. (s.?) heidelbergensis, or as a European subspecies of H. erectus as H. e. tautavelensis. The skull is reconstructed based on the specimens Arago 21 and 47 (probably male), and it is, to a degree, more characteristic of what might be considered a typical H. erectus (sensu stricto) morphology than a typical H. heidelbergensis morphology. The brain capacity is 1,166 cc. They seem to have had an overall robust skeleton. Average height may have been 166 cm (5 ft 5 in).
The Caune de l'Arago opens on a cliffside 80 m (260 ft) above a river, overlooking the Tautavel plain, with a plateau above, and mountainous terrain to the sides. During and after human occupation, the area swung from temperate and humid forestland, to cold and dry steppeland. Stratigraphically, humans are present from beds Q–C. Bed G, dating to roughly 455,000 years old during a forested event, has yielded the most remains. They seem to have hunted a variety of animals, including red deer, fallow deer, argali, tahr, horse, reindeer, beaver, and more. They made Acheulean stone tools, but mainly produced smaller retouched tools such as scrapers, rather than more iconic macro-tools such as bifaces (hand axes). In beds G and F, they may have been practicing ritual cannibalism. Evidence of fire is absent until bed C (400,000 years ago).
TautavelMan refers to the archaic humans which—from approximately 550,000 to 400,000 years ago—inhabited the Caune de l’Arago, a limestone cave in Tautavel...
(CERP). TautavelMan, an early hominid and some of the oldest human remains in Europe, was found in Caune de l'Arago, a cave in the commune. Tautavel is located...
Altamura Man Ceprano Man Dmanisi hominins Early European modern humans Homo antecessor Homo rhodesiensis Swanscombe Heritage Park TautavelMan Tunel Wielki...
perennial stream called the Verdouble [fr]. Human remains attributed to the TautavelMan and the lithic remnants of the Lower Paleolithic were discovered in the...
classify Kabwe 1 (the "Kabwe skull" or "Broken Hill skull", also "Rhodesian Man"), a Middle Stone Age fossil recovered from Broken Hill mine in Kabwe, Northern...
de Lumley MA (2015). "L'homme de Tautavel. Un Homo erectus européen évolué. Homo erectus tautavelensis" [TautavelMan. An evolved European Homo erectus...
million years ago. The earliest known fossil man is TautavelMan, dating from 570,000 years ago. Neanderthal Man is attested in France from about 335,000...
pekinensis † Solo Man, Homo erectus soloensis † (possible separate species) TautavelMan, Homo erectus tautavelensis † Yuanmou Man, Homo erectus yuanmouensis...
ago. Most interesting is the skull of TautavelMan, discovered in 1971 by Henry de Lumley in the commune of Tautavel in the Pyrénées-Orientales department...
Boxgrove Man is a name given to three fossils of early humans, found at Boxgrove in Sussex, and dated to about 480,000 years old. One piece of the tibia...
soloensis (Solo Man) (Oppenoorth, 1932) Homo erectus tautavelensis (TautavelMan) (de Lumley and de Lumley, 1971) Homo erectus georgicus (1991) Homo erectus...
Glacier, Graham Land, Antarctica Arago cave, Tautavel, France, a site where prehistoric remains of TautavelMan were discovered Arago hotspot, a geological...
Saldanha man also known as Saldanha cranium or Elandsfontein cranium are fossilized remains of an archaic human. It is one of the key specimens for Homo...
Neanderthal Early expansions of hominins out of Africa Paleolithic Europe TautavelMan The Tighennif remains were classified by French vertebrate paleontologist...
West Asia, to East Asia (Peking Man) Southeast Asia (Java Man), back to Africa (Homo ergaster), and to Europe (TautavelMan). It appears H. erectus took...
Java Man (−1.75e+06), Yuanmou Man (−1.75e+06: -0.73e+06), Lantian Man (−1.7e+06), Nanjing Man (- 0.6e+06), TautavelMan (- 0.5e+06), Peking Man (- 0.4e+06)...
be about 20 to 30 years. Schoetensack concluded a relationship to modern man (Homo sapiens) from the similarity of the dentition and put the lower jaw...
Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave, Aurignacian, 42,000 to 40,000 BC Lion-man, Aurignacian, c. 41,000 to 35,000 BC Aurignacian cave paintings, Chauvet...
Cape (1996). ISBN 0-224-03771-4 van Oosterzee, Penny. The Story of Peking Man. Allen & Unwin (1999). ISBN 1-86508-632-0 Walker, Allan & Shipman, Pat. The...
pushing back their age by over 100,000 years and thus surpassing Altamura Man as the earliest evidence for Neanderthals in Italy. The new study was a collaborative...
occasionally called "the Neanderthal man". The binomial name Homo neanderthalensis—extending the name "Neanderthal man" from the individual specimen to the...
have belonged to an adult female due to its gracile nature. The "primitive man of Steinheim" is a single find. The designation "Steinheim skull" can be...
which probably was the common ancestor of Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis) and Modern Man (Homo sapiens). The dating of the skull has been attempted...
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