Forbes' Quarry Neanderthal skull
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The Forbes' Quarry Neanderthal skull is a mid-19th-century fossilized Neanderthal cranium from Gibraltar that became one of the earliest known discoveries of this extinct human species and a key specimen in paleoanthropology.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Neanderthal fossil
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hominin cranium ⓘ paleoanthropological specimen ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Forbes’ Quarry skull
NERFINISHED
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Gibraltar 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateAge | ~50,000 years ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Gibraltar 2 (Devil’s Tower Neanderthal child) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToSpecies | Neanderthal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicalPeriod | Late Pleistocene ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryAtTimeOfDiscovery | United Kingdom GENERATED ⓘ |
| cranialCapacityApprox | ~1200–1300 cc ⓘ |
| currentLocation | Natural History Museum, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredAt | Forbes’ Quarry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBefore | Neander Valley type specimen (Neanderthal 1) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | limestone quarry workers ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1848 ⓘ |
| displayStatus | museum exhibit ⓘ |
| fossilType | cranium ⓘ |
| geologicalContext | limestone quarry ⓘ |
| housedInCollection | Human Evolution gallery of the Natural History Museum, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| importanceInHistoryOfScience | predated Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" but was not immediately recognized as Neanderthal ⓘ |
| influenced | early debates on human evolution ⓘ |
| initialRecognitionAsNeanderthal | 1860s ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Gibraltar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | fossilized bone ⓘ |
| morphologicalFeatures |
elongated cranial vault
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large nasal aperture ⓘ midfacial prognathism ⓘ occipital bun ⓘ prominent supraorbital torus (brow ridges) ⓘ receding forehead ⓘ robust cranial bones ⓘ |
| partOf | fossil record of European Neanderthals ⓘ |
| preservationState | fossilized ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Thomas H. Huxley
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William King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Iberian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sex | female ⓘ |
| significance |
early evidence of Neanderthal presence in western Mediterranean Europe
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key specimen in the history of paleoanthropology ⓘ one of the earliest known Neanderthal fossils ⓘ |
| taxon | Homo neanderthalensis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparative studies of Neanderthal and modern human morphology
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reconstructions of Neanderthal appearance ⓘ studies of Neanderthal brain organization ⓘ |
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