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Saccopastore

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Saccopastore 

a site on the outskirts of Rome, where two skulls of Palaeoanthropus were found—a female’s in 1929 and a male’s in 1935—in a sandy pit along with Mousterian stone weapons. The skulls had characteristics common to the skulls of Palaeoanthropus, such as a developed supraorbital ridge and a receding forehead. They also resembled the skull of modern man in some respects. The bones of fossil animals were also found, including those of an ancient elephant, hippopotamus, and Merck’s rhinocerus (Diceros merki). This indicates that the people of Saccopastore lived during a warm part of the last interglacial period (Riss-Würm). The absolute age of the people is about 100,000 years.



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