Homo heidelbergensis (Broken Hill) (1979rp9)

***Homo heidelbergensis*** Location: Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). Age: 350,000 - 250,000 years B.P. Material: plaster cast. Dimensions: length, 235 mm; width, 152 mm; height, 146 mm. Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp9 (cast). Cranium. Kabwe 1, also called the Broken Hill skull or Rhodesian Man, was discovered in a lead and zinc mine and assigned by Arthur Smith Woodward in 1921 as the type specimen for *Homo rhodesiensis*. Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Aidan Paul and Jordyn Gray.