Homo heidelbergensis is an archaic human known from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe and Africa, and possibly Asia depending on how the group is defined. It takes its name from the jawbone Mauer 1, found in a sand pit near the village of Mauer, southeast of Heidelberg, and described by Otto Schoetensack in 1908. The species is poorly defined and its classification is contested, because Middle Pleistocene Homo shows a wide range of anatomy. It has been treated either as the last common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, or as a separate lineage. Chris Stringer revived the name in 1983 for skulls such as Kabwe 1, Petralona 1, Bodo and Arago.
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In 2016, Italian anthropologist Antonio Profico and colleagues suggested that 875,000 year old skull material from the Gombore II site of the Melka Kunture Formation, Ethiopia
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Other such dwellings have been postulated to have existed during or following the Holstein Interglacial (which began 424,000 years ago) in Bilzingsleben, Germany; Terra Amata, France; and Fermanville and Saint-Germain-des-Vaux in Normandy.
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Other such dwellings have been postulated to have existed during or following the Holstein Interglacial (which began 424,000 years ago) in Bilzingsleben, Germany; Terra Amata, France; and Fermanville and Saint-Germain-des-Vaux in Normandy.
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Homo heidelbergensis () is a controversial and somewhat poorly defined species of archaic human from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe and Africa
Body size
may have generally averaged 165-170 cm (5 ft 5 in, 5 ft 7 in) in height.
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from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe and Africa
Diet
heidelbergensis may have been an active hunter of big game including straight-tusked elephant and Stephanorhinus rhinoceroses, but at least some populations also subsisted significantly on food plants and small game.
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Homo heidelbergensis () is a controversial and somewhat poorly defined species of archaic human from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe and Africa
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In addition to the extant species and subspecies, archaeologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists have discovered and classified numerous extinct great ape species as below, based on the taxonomy shown.
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