$219.00
Size: 8¼"L x 6"W x 6¾"H -Species: Homo sapiens -Notes: This 32,000-30,000 year old Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon 1) cranium was discovered by French geologist Louis Lartet and Henry Christy on a limestone cliff in 1868 (during the construction of railway lines in Les-Eyzies, France). Cro-Magnon, meaning "big cliff," represents the...
$310.00
Size: 8½"L x 6"W x 7½"H -Species: Homo sapiens -Notes: This 32,000-30,000 year old Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon 1) cranium was discovered by French geologist Louis Lartet and Henry Christy on a limestone cliff in 1868 (during the construction of railway lines in Les-Eyzies, France). Cro-Magnon, meaning "big cliff," represents the...
$255.00
-Size: 6½"L x 4½"W x 5½"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: The age of this skull was determined by reference to the natural bone specimen and a panoramic radiograph. An examination of both suggests an age between 2 and 3 years. There are 10 teeth in the maxillary arcade and...
$255.00
-Size: 6½"L x 5"W x 6½"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: The age of the skull was determined by referring to the natural bone specimen and a panoramic radiograph, both of which suggest an age range of 5-9 years. There are 12 teeth in the maxillary arcade and 12 teeth in...
$250.00
-Size of 31 week old: 3"L x 2½"W x 2½"H -Size of 32 week old: 3¾"L x 3"W x 3"H -Size of 40 week old: 4½"L x 3½"W x 3½"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: A comparison set of three human skulls in fetal development, ranging from 31, 32, and 40 weeks (near...
$255.00
-Size: 7½"L x 5"W x 6½"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This is an excellent example of an African skull and perfect for use with our Asian and European skulls for comparative study. Although the concept of race assessment is controversial, certain features of the skull may be of use in...
$255.00
-Size: 8"L x 5"W x 7"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This is an excellent example of an African American female skull. Features suggestive of African-American ancestry are the moderate alveolar prognathism, flat nasal region (including the nasal root), broad nasal aperture, retreating zygoma, somewhat truncated nasal spine, and retreating forehead....
$255.00
-Size: 7¾"L x 5"W x 6¾"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This human skull is an excellent example of an Asian female. Some of the features that suggest Asian ancestry include a flat nasal root, an obtuse nasal angle, a somewhat rounded dental arcade in the upper jaw, mild to moderate...
$152.00
-Size: 7"L x 5"W x 6½"H -Notes: While care is taken to ensure the major features of the skull are preserved, the small details of the neural passages may not be opened, making it possible to produce a more economical replica that is still an excellent teaching aide. Analysis of...
$250.00
Size: 8 ½"L x 5"W x 6"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This is an excellent example of a skull from an Asian individual with a metopic suture. A metopic suture is the union point for the two halves of the frontal bone that fuse during skeletal development and is usually...
$270.00
Size: 8½"L x 5"W x 6"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This human male Australian Aboriginal skull was found in 1905 near the lower Darling River in New South Wales, Australia, and was known to be from a very stout 50-year-old male of the Bindaboo Tribe. This specimen highlights...
$255.00
-Size: 7½"L x 5"W x 7½"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This human skull is complex: the totality of features is most suggestive that the individual was European; however, a reasonable differential analysis would include Hispanic individuals and some Asians (including especially an individual from India). Although generally gracile, the specimen...
$255.00
-Size: 7½"L x 5½"W x 7"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: This human male European skull is perfect for use with our Asian and African skulls for comparative study. Although the concept of race assessment is controversial, certain features of the skull may be of use in differentiating ancestral groups....
$309.00
-Size: 8"L x 5½"W x 8"H -Species: Homo sapiens (“Wise Man”) -Notes: Cranial measurements taken by the Maxwell Museum suggest that this skull is likely of Polynesian heritage. The sagittal keel, parietal bossing, the broad, prominent basiooccipital, and the rocker jaw are all excellent for comparison purposes with skulls from other populations....
$294.00
-Size: 6½"L x 4½"W x 5"H -Species: Kenyanthropus platyops -Notes: This 50,000 year old Kenyanthropus platyops skull (KNM-WT-40000) was discovered in 1999 by J. Erus (a member of Meave Leakey's team) west of Lake Turkana, Kenya. The specimen was described in Nature in 2001. Leakey and colleagues viewed the finds as...
$313.00
-Size: 9½"L x 7½"W x 8&¾"H -Species: Meganthropus sp. -Notes: This Meganthropus skull reconstruction was created by Dr. Grover Krantz, a noted scholar of physical and cultural anthropology and an active Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University until shortly before his death. The reconstruction was based on Sangiran 31, a partial...
$219.00
Size: 9"L x 6"W x 4"H -Species: Paranthropus aethiopicus -Notes: This 2.5 million year old Paranthropus aethiopicus skull (KNM-WT 17000) was discovered by Alan Walker in 1985 on the west shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. It was described by Walker, Leakey, Harris and Brown in Nature in 1986. The...
$219.00
Size: 7½"L x 6½"W x 5"H -Species: Paranthropus boisei -Notes: This 1.7 million year old Paranthropus boisei Skull (KNM-ER 406) was discovered by Richard Leakey at Koobi Fora, Kenya, in 1969. This discovery helped to shed light on the controversial hypothesis that all australopithecines were of the same species and tended...
$219.00
-Size: 6½"L x 5½"W x 4"H -Species: Paranthropus boisei -Notes: This 1.7 million year old Paranthropus boisei Skull (KNM-ER 732) was discovered in 1970 at Koobi Fora, Kenya by R. Leakey and H. Mutua and described in Nature in 1971. A comparative analysis of KNM ER 732 and KNM ER 406...
$219.00
Size: 7¾"L x 6¼"W x 6¾"H -Species: Paranthropus boisei -Notes: This 1.8 million year old Paranthropus boisei skull, is the most famous fossil from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. OH 5 was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 and originally classified as Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis Leakey in Nature later that year. The accepted genus name...
$310.00
Size: 8½"L x 6½"W x 7½"H -Species: Paranthropus boisei -Notes: This 1.8 million year old Paranthropus boisei skull, is the most famous fossil from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. OH 5 was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 and originally classified as Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis Leakey in Nature later that year. The accepted genus name...
$219.00
Size: 6¼"L x 6"W x 4¾"H -Species: Paranthropus robustus -Notes: This 2-1.5 million year old Paranthropus robustus skull (SK-48) was discovered by a quarryman named Fourie in Swartkrans, South Africa in 1950 and described by Robert Broom in 1952. SK-48, formerly called Paranthropus crassidens, greatly increased what is known about australopithecines. The...
$310.00
Size: 6½" L x 6"W x 6"H -Species: Paranthropus robustus -Notes: This 2-1.5 million year old Paranthropus robustus skull (SK-48) was discovered by a quarryman named Fourie in Swartkrans, South Africa in 1950 and described by Robert Broom in 1952. SK-48, formerly called Paranthropus crassidens, greatly increased what is known about australopithecines....
$150.00
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-Size: 20"L (top of cord to bottom of tassels), 8&1/2"L (gourd without cord or tassels), 3&1/2"W -Tribe: Iatmul -Notes: Also known as a "koteka," an unadorned penis sheath is traditionally worn by males to protect their genitals. During ceremonies however, decorated sheaths like this one are worn. They are normally...
$174.00
-Size: 5"L x 3"W x 3"H -Species: Proconsul africanus -Notes: This 23-14 million year old skull was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1948 on Rusinga Island, Kenya. This specimen, based on the 1948 Leakey discovery, is the most complete Proconsul africanus cranium to date. Alan Walker reclassified Proconsul africanus, a Miocene hominoid, as heseloni in...
$310.00
Size: 7"L x 4"W x 4"H -Species: Sahelanthropus tchadensis -Notes: The 7-6 million year old Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull was discovered by paleontologist Michael Brunet's team in Chad in 2001 and described in Nature in 2002. Some suggest that S. tchadensis existed near the time that hominids and apes separated on their evolutionary paths....
$237.00
-Size: 5&½"L x 4&½"W x 6"H -Species: Sivapithecus indicus -Notes: This 12.5-8.5 million year old Sivapithecus indicus skull was discovered in 1979 by D. Pilbeam and S.M. Ibrahim Shah on the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan. This specimen consists of a nearly complete mandible (with complete dentition) and the left side of the...