The Boskop Man is an anatomically modern human fossil of the Middle Stone Age (Late Pleistocene) discovered in 1913 in South Africa. [1] The fossil was at first described as Homo capensis and considered a separate human species by Broom (1918), [ 2 ] but by the 1970s this "Boskopoid" type was widely recognized as representative of the modern ...

2022年10月31日 · In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch. The location was Boskop, a small town about 200 miles inland from the east coast of South Africa.

Boskop skull, human fossil remnant consisting of a portion of a skull dome unearthed in 1913 by laborers on a river bank of a farm near the village of Boskop in the Transvaal, South Africa. The specimen consisted of the greater part of the frontal and parietal bones and a …

2008年3月30日 · By 1963, Brothwell could claim that Boskop itself was nothing more than a large skull of Khoisan type, leaving the concept of a “Boskop race” far behind. Today, skeletal remains from South African LSA are generally believed to be ancestral to historic peoples in the region, including the Khoikhoi and San.

TWELVE years ago there was discovered in the Transvaal a remarkable human skull of apparently great antiquity. Fitzsimons, of Port Elizabeth Museum, first described it as perhaps allied to the...

When the skull is studied in projection and ratios computed, we find that these fossil South African folk, generally called “Boskop” or “Boskopoids” after the site of first discovery, have the amazing cranium-to-face ratio of almost five to one.

Last year, the discovery of a more primitive human race in Homo rhodesiensis has served to redirect attention to the part which Africa still has to play in elucidating the wider questions of human...

2022年5月13日 · Although ultimately the Piltdown skull was shown to be a forgery, its presence in the scientific literature at the base of the human evolutionary tree was virtually unchallenged for 30 years. All of these sites were in Europe and all that was really at issue was which part of Europe had been the place where humans had evolved – England ...

TWELVE years ago there was discovered in the Transvaal a remarkable human skull of apparently great antiquity. Fitzsimons, of Port Elizabeth Museum, first described it as perhaps allied to the Neanderthal but without the large supra-orbital ridges.

2024年3月29日 · Who was the Boskop man? Was a late Pleistocene South African man of moderate stature with an enlarged skull some thirty percent larger than a modern humans brain with a vertical forehead, an orthognathous face, and large frontal lobe.