Groß Pampau, GR, c. 500,000 BP, Anthropoidea / o)pamprim14

Initially, identified by Ursel Benekendorff as 'elongated monkey or baboon-like head', the collector has re-identified this piece as 'based on nostrils, possibly a sculpture of a Homo erectus skull'.

Photo © Ursel Benekendorff. Collection Ursel Benekendorff. The site is documented in Benekendorff, U. (1990). From the information recorder stone to a picture book of the stone age. Archaeologische Berichten 20:14-28 and 43-65 (Elst, NL).

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