A new Upper Pleistocene hominin calvarium from West-Turkana (Kenya)

Abstract

The Upper Pleistocene (UP) African hominin fossil record is extremely scarce. Only two well-preserved specimens dated to 50,000-30,000 years ago are available: the Hofmeyr cranium from South Africa, and the Nazelt Khater 2 (NK2) skeleton from Egypt. Here, we present a new hominin calvarium (NG1) found in 2015 at Ngingolea Idome (West Turkana, Kenya) and directly dated to 30,000-33,000 years ago by U-series. The NG1 calvarium was reconstructed from multiple small fragments which were found on ...