Specimens

Dame von Kelsterbach

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Site:
Kelsterbach
Lat/Long:
50.06, 8.53
Classifications:
Cro-Magnons
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Dame von Kelsterbach is the name given to a skull roof that was discovered in 1952 in the Willersinn-Mönchwaldsee gravel pit in Kelsterbach, Hesse, on a Main terrace and interpreted as the fossil remains of a woman. With a radiocarbon dating of 31,200 ± 600 BP (corresponds to a calendar age of at least 34,000 BC when calibrated), the skull was considered for several years the oldest evidence of Cro-Magnon man, the earliest anatomically modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe.