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Pithecanthropus

an individual of a group (Pithecanthropus) of ancient humans—the Archanthropines. Pithecanthropoid bones have been found on Java. The first remains—a skull cap, a femur, and teeth—were discovered in 1890–92 by the Dutch anthropologist E. Dubois. By 1973, skull fragments, lower jaws, femur fragments, and teeth from more than 20 individuals had been found. Of particular interest is a skull with an intact facial skeleton, which was discovered in 1969.

The pithecanthropi had a fully erect gait and a large (averaging 900 cc), complex brain. The low skull was sharply angulate in back. There was a prominent brow ridge and a jawbone with a receding chin. The Pithecanthropus, along with the Sinanthropus, the Atlanthropus, the Heidelberg man, and the Oldoway man, has been assigned to the species Homo erectus. The age of the Pithecanthropus had been estimated at 500,000 to 700,000 years until 1972, when new data placed it as far back as 1.2 million years.

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Uryson, M. I. “Pitekantropy, sinantropy i blizkie im formy gominid.” In the collection Iskopaemye gominidy i proiskhozhdenie cheloveka. Moscow, 1966.

V. P. IAKIMOV

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No references found	The most famous of these is, of course, Conan Doyle's The Lost World, first published in 1912, and featuring Professor Challenger's expedition to South America, and the rescue of a local tribe from primitive, Pithecanthropine Neanderthal (or Piltdown) ape-men. Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative by Hackett, Abigail; Dennell, Robin / Antiquity Despite the overwhelming lack of palaeoanthropological fieldwork outside of Europe and the complete lack of an australopithecine or pithecanthropine grade fossil record within it, he suggested that because `the archaeological evidence of man's antiquity in Europe is more extensive and complete than for any other continent . Antiquity and early humanity. (Special section) by Pettitt, P.B. / Antiquity	pitcher pitcher house pitcher plant Pitcher, Molly pitchfork pitchhole pitching axis Pitching Chisel pitching fold pitching moment pitching piece pitching tool Pitchlynn, Peter pitchover Pitchstone Pitealven Piteälven Pitelino Piter Jelles Troelstra Pitesti pitfall Pith pith fleck pith knot pith ray pithecanthropine Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus erectus Pithecia Pithom Pithon Pithos Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin Pitiusas Islands Pitkiaranta Pitkin County pitman pitman arm Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitney, Mahlon Pitoeff Pitoëff Pitoëff, Georges pitometer pitometer log piton pitot pressure pitot static system Pitot Tube Pitot-Prandtl Tube pitot-tube anemometer	Pitfall (disambiguation) Pitfall (disambiguation) Pitfall (film) Pitfall (film) Pitfall (film) Pitfalling Pitfalling Pitfalling pitfalls pitfalls pitfalls pith pith pith pith pith pith fleck pith hat pith helmet Pith helmets pith knot pith of a matter Pith paper pith ray pith ray pith ray pithead pitheads pithecanthropic pithecanthropic pithecanthropine Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus erectus Pithecanthropus erectus Pithecantropus erectus Pithecantropus erectus Pithecellobium Pithecellobium dulce Pithecellobium splitgerberianum Pithecellodium unguis-cati Pitheci Pithecia Pithecia Pithecia pithecoid pithecoid Pithecolobium Pithecusae Pithecusae Pithecusae pithed pithed pithed pithed Pithful pithier pithier pithiest pithiest Pithikoussai

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The most famous of these is, of course, Conan Doyle's The Lost World, first published in 1912, and featuring Professor Challenger's expedition to South America, and the rescue of a local tribe from primitive, Pithecanthropine Neanderthal (or Piltdown) ape-men.

Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative by Hackett, Abigail; Dennell, Robin / Antiquity

Despite the overwhelming lack of palaeoanthropological fieldwork outside of Europe and the complete lack of an australopithecine or pithecanthropine grade fossil record within it, he suggested that because `the archaeological evidence of man's antiquity in Europe is more extensive and complete than for any other continent .

Antiquity and early humanity. (Special section) by Pettitt, P.B. / Antiquity

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