The Florisbad skull has fascinated scientists since its discovery in South Africa nearly 90 years ago. The skull was discovered in 1932 at the Florisbad site in the Free State of Bavaria and dates from the Mesolithic Age of prehistoric Africa. However, archaeologists could not clearly determine who the skull belonged to.
Homo heidelbergensis had a brain almost as large as that of modern humans and reached average heights similar to those of pre-industrial humans.
And although the fossil record is incomplete, the subspecies is believed to have formed 700,000 to 200,000 years ago.
The second theory is that the Florisbad skull belonged to an early form of Homo sapiens – modern humans.
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The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and his colleague Marlize Lombard published the results of their study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences.
The study described the features of the skull and compared it to other human species such as Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals), and Homo heidelbergensis.
At first glance, the skull seems to have a very modern shape.
According to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, one of the earliest known human traits, the ability to walk on two legs, developed more than four million years ago.
And the large and complex brains that we used to construct tools and develop language are much younger.
The museum said, “Many advanced features – including complex symbolic expressions, art, and sophisticated cultural diversity – have emerged primarily over the past 100,000 years.”
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