Homo rhodesiensis

Homo rhodesiensis is the species name proposed in 1921 by Arthur Smith Woodward for Kabwe 1, also called the Kabwe skull, the Broken Hill skull or Rhodesian Man, a Middle Stone Age skull recovered from the Broken Hill mine at Kabwe in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia. In 2020 the skull was dated to between 324,000 and 274,000 years ago. Similar fossils from East and North Africa, such as the Bodo and Ndutu crania, were later compared with it. Most scientists now treat the name as a synonym of Homo heidelbergensis, and other names such as Homo sapiens arcaicus and Homo sapiens rhodesiensis have also been proposed for the material.