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

Collections

• Ditsong National Museum of Natural History [3321]
  • Kromdraai [420]
  • Swartkrans [2901]
• Espace muséal d’Andenne [139]
  • Scladina [139]
• Jersey Museum [58]
  • La Cotte de St Brelade [58]
• McGregor Museum [15]
  • Equus Cave [15]
• MiC-SABAP Imperia Savona [435]
  • Museo Archaeologico del Finale [424]
  • Santa Lucia Superiore [11]
• Musée des Confluences [150]
  • Gorilla [36]
    • CCEC-50001988 Gorilla gorilla skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001994 Gorilla gorilla dentition [6]
    • CCEC-50001994 Gorilla gorilla skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001996 Gorilla gorilla dentition [6]
    • CCEC-50002625 Gorilla gorilla dentition [6]
    • CCEC unknown number Gorilla gorilla mouth [6]
  • Hylobates [30]
    • CCEC-50001733 Hylobates agilis skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001909 Hylobates lar skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001912 Hylobates syndactylus skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001913 Hylobates agilis skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001914 Hylobates lar skull [6]
  • Pan [84]
    • CCEC-50001738 Pan skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001746 Pan skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001754 Pan skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001755 Pan troglodytes dentition [6]
    • CCEC-50001759 Pan troglodytes skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001793 Pan troglodytes skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001795 Pan troglodytes skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001796 Pan troglodytes skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001800 Pan troglodytes dentition [6]
    • CCEC-50001801 Pan skull [6]
    • CCEC-50001992 Pan troglodytes dentition [6]
    • CCEC-50002604 Pan troglodytes skull [6]
    • CCEC-50003362 Pan troglodytes dentition [6]
    • CCEC-50003363 Pan troglodytes skull [6]
• Musée Archéologie Nationale [6]
  • La Quina [6]
• Museum für Naturkunde [8]
• National Museum of Lao PDR [8]
  • TNH2-1 Denisovan EDJ [1]
  • TNH2-1 Denisovan OES [1]
  • Tam Pa Ling 1 H. sapiens frontal [1]
  • Tam Pa Ling 1 H. sapiens maxilla [1]
  • Tam Pa Ling 2 H. sapiens mandible [1]
  • Tam Pa Ling 3 H. sapiens partial mandible [1]
  • Tam Pa Ling 6 H. sapiens frontal [1]
  • Tam Pa Ling 7 H. sapiens tibia fragment [1]
• National Museum of Natural History [185]
  • Unprovenienced human teeth [185]
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center [10]
  • Trinil [10]
• Natural History Museum, United Kingdom [30]
  • Boxgrove England [2]
  • Devil's Tower Gibraltar [22]
  • Forbes Quarry Gibraltar [1]
  • Kabwe Broken Hill Zambia [1]
  • Singa Sudan [1]
  • Swanscombe England [1]
  • Skhul Israel [1]
  • Tabun Israel [1]
• Publications [232]
  • Skinner M. M. Gunz P. 2010 The presence of accessory cusps in chimpanzee lower molars is consistent with a patterning cascade model [161]
  • Chapple and Skinner 2022 Primate tooth crown nomenclature revisited [64]
  • Mussi et al. 2023 Science [1]
  • Davies et al. Dental morphology in Homo habilis [1]
  • Berg et al. 2025 Further assessment of a 2-million-year-old hominin pelvis (DNH 43) from Drimolen Main Quarry South Africa [5]
• Rockefeller Museum [26]
  • Qafzeh [26]
• Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung [53]
  • SMF-PA-PC-21 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-21 P. t. verus mandible [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-50 P. t. verus cranium [6]
  • SMF-PA-PC-50 P. t. verus mandible [5]
  • SMF-PA-PC-51 P. t. verus cranium [6]
  • SMF-PA-PC-51 P. t. verus mandible [5]
  • SMF-PA-PC-82 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-82 P. t. verus mandible [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-92 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-92 P. t. verus mandible [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-99 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-99 P. t. verus mandible [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-100 P. t. verus cranium [6]
  • SMF-PA-PC-100 P. t. verus mandible [5]
  • SMF-PA-PC-104 P. t. verus cranium [6]
  • SMF-PA-PC-106 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-106 P. t. verus mandible [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-117 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-117 P. t. verus mandible [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-406 P. t. verus cranium [1]
  • SMF-PA-PC-406 P. t. verus mandible [1]
• State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart [106]
  • Steinheim [101]
  • Reilingen [5]
• Taï Chimpanzee Project [8690]
  • Pan troglodytes verus [8690]
• University of Kent [753]
  • NGA88 SK48 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK48 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK48 H. sapiens maxilla [5]
  • NGA88 SK72 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK72 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK86 H. sapiens cranium [8]
  • NGA88 SK86 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK170 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK170 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK227 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK227 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK227 H. sapiens maxilla [5]
  • NGA88 SK229 H. sapiens cranium [6]
  • NGA88 SK229 H. sapiens mandible [5]
  • NGA88 SK287 H. sapiens cranium [8]
  • NGA88 SK319 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK319 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK319 H. sapiens mandible highres [8]
  • NGA88 SK319 H. sapiens maxilla [7]
  • NGA88 SK341 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK341 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK376 H. sapiens mandible highres [8]
  • NGA88 SK376 H. sapiens maxilla [7]
  • NGA88 SK444 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK444 H. sapiens mandible [9]
  • NGA88 SK491 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK491 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK563 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK563 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK578 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK578 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK578 H. sapiens mandible highres [8]
  • NGA88 SK578 H. sapiens maxilla [7]
  • NGA88 SK593 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK593 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK632 H. sapiens cranium [6]
  • NGA88 SK657 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK657 H. sapiens mandible highres [7]
  • NGA88 SK657 H. sapiens maxilla [6]
  • NGA88 SK660 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK708 H. sapiens mandible highres [6]
  • NGA88 SK708 H. sapiens maxilla [6]
  • NGA88 SK742 H. sapiens cranium [5]
  • NGA88 SK742 H. sapiens mandible [5]
  • NGA88 SK749 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK749 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK750 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK750 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK752 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK752 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK766 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK766 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK798 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK798 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK830 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK830 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK860 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK860 H. sapiens mandible highres [6]
  • NGA88 SK860 H. sapiens maxilla [7]
  • NGA88 SK889 H. sapiens mandible highres [6]
  • NGA88 SK889 H. sapiens maxilla [8]
  • NGA88 SK917 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK917 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK919 H. sapiens cranium [8]
  • NGA88 SK919 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGA88 SK932 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK932 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK932 H. sapiens mandible highres [5]
  • NGA88 SK977 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK977 H. sapiens mand dent [7]
  • NGA88 SK977 H. sapiens mandible [6]
  • NGA88 SK977 H. sapiens maxilla [7]
  • NGA88 SK1030 H. sapiens mandible highres [8]
  • NGA88 SK1053 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK1053 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK1067 H. sapiens cranium [5]
  • NGA88 SK1067 H. sapiens mandible [5]
  • NGA88 SK1130 H. sapiens cranium [5]
  • NGA88 SK1130 H. sapiens mandible [5]
  • NGA88 SK1212 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK1212 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK1218 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGA88 SK1218 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGA88 SK1222 H. sapiens cranium [9]
  • NGA88 SK1222 H. sapiens mandible [9]
  • NGB89 SK4 H. sapiens cranium [5]
  • NGB89 SK4 H. sapiens mandible [5]
  • NGB89 SK6 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGB89 SK18 H. sapiens cranium [5]
  • NGB89 SK22 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGB89 SK22 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGB89 SK22 H. sapiens maxilla [7]
  • NGB89 SK36 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGB89 SK36 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGB89 SK51 H. sapiens cranium [8]
  • NGB89 SK51 H. sapiens mandible [7]
  • NGB89 SK52 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGB89 SK52 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGB89 SK72 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGB89 SK72 H. sapiens mandible [8]
  • NGB89 SK73 H. sapiens cranium [5]
  • NGB89 SK73 H. sapiens mandible [5]
  • NGB89 SK73 H. sapiens maxilla [6]
  • NGB89 SK81 H. sapiens cranium [7]
  • NGB89 SK81 H. sapiens mandible [8]
• University of Liège [17]
  • Engis [17]
• University of the Witwatersrand [1941]
  • Makapansgat [79]
  • Rising Star [1173]
  • Sterkfontein [684]
  • Drimolen [5]
• Yale Peabody Museum [92]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis right maxilla [7]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis left maxilla [5]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis mandible highres [9]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis mandible LLM1 LLM2 LLM3 [7]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis mandible LLM3 [7]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis mandible LLP3 LLP4 [7]
  • YPM PU11499 A. parisiensis mandible overview [9]
  • YPM PU11589 A. parisiensis right mandible [7]
  • YPM PU11589 A. parisiensis left mandible [7]
  • YPM PU11589 A. parisiensis left maxilla [5]
  • YPM 18960 A. parisiensis right maxilla [5]
  • YPM PU11481 L. leenhardti maxillae [8]
  • YPM PU11481 L. leenhardti cranium [9]
• Online Teaching Resources [31]
  • Fossil hominins [6]
  • Living primates [8]
  • Modern humans [1]
  • Lab exercises for university students [3]
  • Activities for kids [13]

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