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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Caune de l'Arago item 21.
The skull of Tautavel man, the oldest known European Human face, dated to about 450,000 BC.
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| Posted Comments: thecaptain
(2005-12-16) | With the recent report claiming that humans were active in Britain 700,000 years ago, I thought I'd best get this site up and running properly on the Portal. This is the earliest known European human so far found. | Thorgrim
(2005-12-16) | Boxgrove man from West Sussex is 50,000 years earlier. Current estimates for Tautavel Man (in English textbooks) is between 320,000 and 200,000 BP. A mere youngster compared with Boxgrove. Does the musee really calim that they have the oldest European? | thecaptain
(2005-12-17) | Searching through the museum guide and a couple of other books (in French, so its a bit of a struggle for me), it seems that they claim this to be the oldest European face, and amongst the oldest Europeans. The 450,000 year date doesnt seem to be in doubt.
My apologies for not researching more fully first and making it clear before I posted this. But I am pretty sure the advertising leaflets and signs to the place state that it is the home of the oldest Europeans. | Thorgrim
(2005-12-17) | The title of the oldest European should really belong to the child whose almost complete face was found at Gran Tolina in northern Spain. He is 800,000 years old. |
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