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A new cave man from Rhodesia, South Africa.

WOODWARD, Arthur Smith (1864 – 1944) Wikipedia

Publication Details

Nature, 108, 371–372. 1921 CE.

The first fossil human discovered in Africa: Homo rhodesiensis, commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.The skull, which most current experts classify as Homo heidelbergensis, was discovered in 1921 in a lead and zinc mine in Kabwe, Zambia (formerly Broken Hill, Rhodesia).

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ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Zambia EVOLUTION › Human Origins / Human Evolution

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Entry Number	#7309
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Author Bio Link	Wikipedia ↗
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