Homo heidelbergensis is dated to between 400,000 and 100,000 years.

The Fossils:

~Found by Henri and Marie- Antoinette de Lumley in the late 1960's/ early 1970's in Tautavel, France

~Dated to between 200,000 - 400,000 years

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~Discovered by Asfaw, Whitehead, and Wood in 1976 in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia

~Dated to 600,000 years

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~From Boxgrove, England

~Discovered by Tom Zwiglaar at Kabwe, Zambia in 1921

~Dated to between 125,000 to 300,000 years

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~Discovered in 1907 by workmen in a sand pit, but was studied by O. Shoetensack at Mauer, Germany

~Dated to 300,000 years

~The Mauer mandible is the type specimen for Homo heidelbergensis

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~Found by local villagers in Petralona, Greece in 1960

~Dated to between 150,000 - 200,000 years

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A. ramidus ~ A. anamensis ~ A. afarensis ~ A. africanus ~ A. gahri ~ A. bahrelghazali ~ P. boisei ~ P. aethiopicus ~ P. robustus ~ H. habilis ~ H. rudolfensis ~ H. erectus ~ H. ergaster ~ H. antecessor ~ H. heidelbergensis ~ H. neanderthalensis ~ H. sapiens

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Steven Heslip ~ 2001 ~ heslipst@msu.edu