Fossil:

Arago XXI

Source: Casts of original fossil. American Museum of Natural History.

Site:

Caune de l'Arago
Tautavel, France (1)

Discovered By:

Henry de Lumley
1971 (1)

Estimated Age of Fossil:

400,000 ya
* determined by Stratigraphic, faunal, archaeological & oxygen isotope data (1, 4, 38)

Species Name:

Homo heidelbergensis (1, 7)
Homo neanderthalensis (38)

Gender:

Male (based on robust features and size) (1)

Cranial Capacity:

1166 cc (1)

Information:

60 hominid fossils found at site (1)

Interpretation:

Features suggest Arago is an ancestral Neanderthal (1)
Broca's cap found on endocast of brain (speech areas well developed) (15)
Righthanded (based on asymmetry of endocast) (15)

Nickname:

Tautavel Man (1)