Boskop Man

The Boskop Man is an anatomically modern human fossil of the Middle Stone Age (Late Pleistocene) discovered in 1913 in South Africa.

[1] The fossil was at first described as Homo capensis and considered a separate human species by Broom (1918),[2] but by the 1970s this "Boskopoid" type was widely recognized as representative of the modern Khoisan populations.

The original skull was incomplete consisting of frontal and parietal bones, with a partial occiput, one temporal and a fragment of mandible.

Fossils of similar type are known from Tsitsikamma (1921), Matjes River (1934), Fish Hoek and Springbok Flats,[4] Skhul, Qafzeh, Border Cave, Brno, Tuinplaas, and other locations.

[5] The Boskop Man fossils are notable for their unusually large cranial capacities, with reported cranial-capacity ranges between 1,700 and 2,000 cm3.