[Rockhounds] Hominid fossil found in floor tile during kitchen renovation

Paul etchplain at att.net
Wed Apr 24 19:02:33 PDT 2024


I suspect that this specimen came from the travertines of the Denizli 
Basin, Turkey.
Some relevant papers are:

Vialet, A., Prat, S., Wils, P. and Alcicek, M.C., 2018. The Kocabas 
hominin (Denizli
Basin, Turkey) at the crossroads of Eurasia: New insights from 
morphometric and
cladistic analyses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 17(1-2), pp.17-32.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322910775_The_Kocabas_hominin_Denizli_Basin_Turkey_at_the_crossroads_of_Eurasia_New_insights_from_morphometric_and_cladistic_analyses
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631068317301379

Rausch, L., Alcicek, H., Vialet, A., Boulbes, N., Mayda, S., Titov, 
V.V., Stoica, M.,
Charbonnier, S., Abels, H.A., Tesakov, A.S. and Moigne, A.M., 2019. An 
integrated
reconstruction of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in
the Denizli Basin (SW Turkey). Geobios, 57, pp.77-95.
https://sisn.pagepress.org/index.php/nhs/article/download/nhs.2011.13/45
https://amu.hal.science/hal-02415801/file/Rausch%20et%20al%20Geobios%202019.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.



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