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Florisbad

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Site: Florisbad, Republic of South Africa

Year of Discovery: 1932

Discovered by: Prof. T.F. Dreyer

Age: About 259,000 years old

Species: Homo heidelbergensis

3/4 view of Homo heidelbergensis Florisbad skull — (Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution)

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