Ndutu , north location Tanzania, known for a 400,000-year-old human skull and associated Stone Age Tools , discovered there in 1973. The skull has features of Homo erectus and H. sapiens on , where brain size is intermediate between the two types. Like H. erectus it has a large forehead, a wider crest along the back of the skull, and a thick-boned braincase. However, the shape of the braincase is more similar to H. sapiens, because it has vertical sides. It's similar to Kabwe- specimen and is tentatively classified as the same species by paleoanthropologists. H. heidelbergensis , a species found in Africa about 600,000 years ago and in Europe 500,000 years ago. H. heidelbergensis represents a stage of human evolution between African H. erectus (referred to by some paleoanthropologists as H. ergaster denoted ) and later species of the genus Homo dar , including Neanderthal ( H. neanderthalensis ) and modern humans ( H. sapiens) ). Tools found on site included a hand axe, but most Artifacts were inconspicuous cores, hammerstones and flakes, probably from the Acheulian industry .
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