Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky Island: History and Context

Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky Island: History and Context

M.N. Kandinov, M.B. Mednikova, M.V. Dobrovolskaya, and A.P. Buzhilova.

Many valuable items owned by Russian academic museums have not yet received due attention. Among them is a fossil human humerus which for eighty years was believed to have been lost. The authors publish a handwritten document reporting on the discovery of a calotte and a humerus on Khoroshevsky Island, Khvalynsk, Central Russia. The geological context and accompanying faunal material suggest that the human remains date to the Late Acheulean or Early Mousterian age.