Predmost 3

Predmost 3 is an archaeological find from central Europe in the Czech republic, and is geologically dated as Late Pleistocene. The find is a skull found in Predmosti, Moravia, and dated to 26,000yB.P. and has a cranial capacity of 1580 cubic centimetres (Holloway 2000;Holloway et al 2004). The skull was destroyed in the Second World War by Nazi Germany.

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• Anthroscape. Can be read here.

• Jiří A. Svoboda, The Upper Paleolithic burial area at Předmostí: ritual and taphonomy, January 2008.

• Clark Spencer Larsen, Robert M. Matter, Daniel Lee Gebo, Human origins: the fossil record, 225 pages.