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Accession Number AFC974.17.8b Scientific Name Homo sapiens sapiens Category mandible Portion dentition complete, except for right P3 Alternate Taxon Palaeoanthropus palestinensis; Homo sapiens neanderthalensis Cast Source Faculty of Dentistry, University of Alberta Fossil Owner Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem Fossil Collector McCown, T.D.; Movius, H.L. Jr. Date Collected 1932 Place Collected Asia: Israel Site Mugharet es-Skhul, Mount Carmel, Skhul Age 30-40yrs Description Plastic cast of a mandible, dentition complete, except for right P3 Materials plastic Geologic Age Late Pleistocene/End of Last Interpluvial Sex male Stratigraphy Layer B, breccia