(5) Lower jaw fragment with five teeth Arago XIII

 

The original bones have been found in the cave of Arago, near Tautavel in the french Pyrenaes in 1971 by Henry de Lumley and published in the same year as Arago XXI, also known as Tautavel man. H. Heidelbergensis, the european Version of H.erectus, lived around 400 000 years ago, they developed later to the Neanderthals. On this very detailed skull cast the nasial cavities and the brain cavity are perfectly to see. The approximated brain volume is 1166 Cubic cm and beyond the known size for H.erectus.