HOMINIDAE

ANCESTRIES OF THE MAN IN THE POSTAL STAMPS

 

FRANCE

1992

Man of Tautavel

450,000 years n.e.

issue in 1992.

Homo erectus tautavelensis

 

 27.6.1992 -'L'Homme de Tautavel'.
 
3,40 F., Neanderthal man with spear, 450.000 years ago.
  
Scott: 2296.
Stanley Gibbons: 3084.
Unificato: 2754.

Yvert nş. 2759

 

Postmarcks

1975

14.9.1975

 

1992

21.7.1992

 

15.10.1992

BIOLOGIA

CAUNE DE ARAGO, Tautavel - France.

 

The taken hollowing the handle for H. of Lumley had lead To the discovery of two jaws of a face, a parietal, a basin and some long bones.

 

The face possesses one toro surpasses - orbital very sharp with trend to give origin to a subdivision.

It does not have Foss canine, morphology of the type of the one that if finds enters the men of the neanderthal.

 

The jaws present one accented sexual dimorphism.

 

Marcel de Serres, discovers animals flossies .

 

From 1948, he puts short the neolithic industries.

 

Later, in 1964, Henry de Lumley and the Laboratory of Paleontology Prehistoric Human being and of the University of Aix-Marseille organises systematic research every year and enquiry and, in 191 puts short the Man of Tautavel.

 

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