The Teshik-Tash skull has an estimated age of 70 kya. Through carbon-14 (14C) dating, the date range of the skull is 130-45 kya, placing it in the Middle Paleolithic. The Teshik-Tash skull was reconstructed from 150 bone fragments. The skull was crushed due to the several layers of sediment that lay on top of it.
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