The Human Fossil Record:
A Digital Resource for Research and Education

This material is curated at the Musée des Confluences, France and researchers should follow the procedures of this institution for conducting scientific research on their collections. The images below are derived from CT scans publicly available under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license from ESRF heritage database for palaeontology, evolutionary biology and archaeology (but see http://paleo.esrf.eu/ for additional terms of use). Any use of the images below must be in accordance with the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, including crediting the curatorial institution and human-fossil-record.org.

The specimens in this collection are associated with the following publication:

Nengo I., Tafforeau P., Gilbert C. C., Fleagle J. G., Miller E. M., Feibel C., Fox D. L., Feinberg J., Pugh K. D., Berruyer C., Mana S., Engle Z. & Spoor F. (2017). New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution. Nature, 548:169-174.