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summarised the three dominant explanations for Iho Eleru fossil's atypical cranial shape: the first, that Iho Eleru was a hybrid with archaic
African populations; the second, that Iho Eleru fossil was a member of a relict archaic population that was replaced by more modern humans upon the onset of
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The correct name for the archaeological site is IhĂČ ElĂ©Ă©rĂș, or Iho Eleru, meaning "Cave of Ashes." This name originates from its common use for fire camps which resulted in a thick ash floor covering most of its superficial surface. The site was previously known as "Iwo Eleru", first reported by
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is well developed and has a masculine appearance, although there is no pronounced chin. Apart from two lower premolars, the teeth are not attached to the jaws and it is uncertain where the surviving teeth were originally placed. All the
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Brothwell and Thurstan Shaw said in 1971 that the sloping frontal vault was more pronounced in Iho Eleru fossil than in both later Neolithic and recent sub-Saharan skull samples. However, they also found that the
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artifacts at the site. It was found as part of a skeleton that was buried with a thin covering of soil. The skeleton was excavated and encased in plaster, and the skull was separated from the rest of the body.
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Officer J. Akeredolu with the Department of Antiquities in Benin, Nigeria, and published by T. Shaw and S.G.H. Daniels, most probably as an incorrect anglicized translation from its original Yoruba name.
95:, meaning "Cave of Ashes." The Iho Eleru skull is a notable archaeological discovery from the site which dates to approximately 13,000 years old. It may be evidence of modern humans possessing possible
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Katerina
Harvati, Chris Stringer, Rainer GrĂŒn, Maxime Aubert, Philip Allsworth-Jones and Caleb Adebayo Folorunso, 'The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iho Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology',
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kya, with no obvious sign of living descendants, suggests that the Iho Eleru lineage quite probably represents a distinct species of near modern human. As such, the species name
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Holocene era; and the third, that Iho Eleru fossil was part of a population that diverged from the rest of North Africa's populations during a time of acute aridness in the
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Fred L. Bookstein, 'âLike Fixing an
Airpline in Flightâ: On Paleoanthropology as an Evolutionary Discipline, or, Paleoanthropology for What?', in Schwartz (ed.),
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and whose extinction may have been caused by humans. Waddell also said: "Such a long apparently distinct lineage that terminated in West Africa perhaps 12
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On the basis of charcoal remains that were found surrounding the skeleton, it was initially dated 9250 BC ± 200. However, in a 2011 study conducted by
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Michael F. Hammer, August E. Woerner, Fernando L. Mendez, Joseph C. Watkins and
Jeffrey D. Wall, 'Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa',
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with that of Iho Eleru. The 2011 study found that "Iwo Eleru possesses neurocranial morphology intermediate in shape between archaic hominins (
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Shaw, Thurstan, and S. G. H. Daniels. "Excavations at Iwo Eleru, Ondo State, Nigeria." West
African Journal of Archaeology 14 (1984): 1-269.
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Shaw, Thurstan, and S. G. H. Daniels. "Excavations at Iwo Eleru, Ondo State, Nigeria." West
African Journal of Archaeology 14 (1984): 1-269.
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structure, nasal root and the frontal bone of the skull "would qualify for identification as that of a proto-West
African negro."
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are also robust. The existing remains suggest he was of medium height and build, and was no taller than approximately 165
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Harvati et al, 'The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology', p. 6.
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Harvati et al, 'The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology', p. 5.
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The Iho Eleru site is a large rock shelter in southwestern Nigeria. The skull was found in 1965 by
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are moderately developed for a male and there is no pronounced
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was utilized in 11,300 cal BP as the earliest in the region of
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desert that made it impassable until the arrival of the
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have been directly dated; the results revealed that
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1591:Tam Pa Ling
1486:H. ergaster
1305:P. robustus
491:Asselar man
477:Stone tools
421:Pleistocene
316:brow ridges
302:Description
135:West Africa
116:Archaeology
75:village of
65:Pleistocene
2062:Categories
1823:Skin color
1808:Bipedalism
1769:Killer ape
1581:Cro-Magnon
1480:Denisovans
1356:H. habilis
1320:Humans and
1205:A. ramidus
1198:A. kadabba
1040:7021527413
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320:nasal root
207:rock hyrax
165:region of
157:region of
89:IhĂČ ElĂ©Ă©rĂș
81:Ondo State
1942:Theorists
1909:Timelines
1789:Patriarch
1765:Behavior
1690:Gathering
1618:Ancestors
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1298:P. boisei
1269:A. sediba
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597:256747182
563:2589-0042
396:occipital
352:attrition
258:Discovery
155:Ounjougou
127:endocarps
93:Iho Eleru
49:Iwo Eleru
45:Iho Eleru
18:Iwo Eleru
1988:Category
1843:Language
1813:Skeleton
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1262:A. garhi
1099:Hominins
1094:Taxonomy
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535:iScience
485:See also
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389:Analysis
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223:butchery
219:foraging
163:Bosumpra
145:Ceramics
139:oil palm
69:Holocene
51:, is an
2026:Portals
2000:Commons
1952:Fossils
1818:Muscles
1729:Cooking
1685:Hunting
1162:Orrorin
1032:2798263
930:Science
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580:9950523
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243:Ostrich
191:bushpig
175:Nigeria
171:arrived
153:in the
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36:Nigeria
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1935:Others
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1947:Books
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185:Some
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167:Ghana
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