Anthropological skull, Homo rhodesiensis

This anthropological skull is cast from a reconstruction of the skull called The Broken Hill or Kabwe skull of a Homo sapiens rhodesiensis or Homo erectus rhodesiensis, which is believed to be approximately 150,000 to 300,000 years old. Previous estimates put the age of the skull at 40-60,000 years.

The skull measures L: 20.6 x W: 14.5 x H: 13 cm and weighs approximately 0.9 kg. It comes on a stand showing a map of the area where the original skull was found.

Like other anthropological skulls, this skull is also produced from scientific copies of specimens from the collection of the "Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics for Biologists" at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

It should be added that the original skull (of which this model is a cast) was found in an iron mine in Broken Hill, now called Kabwe, Zambia, 1921.