Dmanisi skull 3

Cranium D2282 is likely the accompanying skull to mandible D211 and to be the remains of a young adult around 18–20 years old.

D4500's features are very rare compared to early Homo in that it had a small braincase yet an unusually large prognathic face.

Despite certain differences among these Dmanisi individuals, we do not see sufficient grounds for assigning them to more than one hominid [now, "hominin"] taxon.

We view the new specimen as a member of the same population as the other fossils, and we here assign the new skull provisionally to Homo erectus.All Dmanisi hominin remains were suggested to have been buried quickly after death.

Because the cranium's upper molars were partially erupted, D2700 is believed to have been the skull of a 13 to 15-year-old individual.

The smaller size of the D2700 skull compared to skulls D2280 and D2282 suggests as well as its more slender feature suggest female sex,[1] but the very large size of huge upper canines and large crowns have been argued to support classification as male.

[4] It was conjectured that the categorical differences seen in for instance the mandibular and dental features of the crania from Dmanisi, may be ascribed to taxonomic diversity, as opposed to all five deriving from the same H. erectus lineage.

Modern reproduction of Dmanisi skull 3, Fossils skull D2700 and D2735 jaw, two of several found in Dmanisi in the Georgian Caucasus
Detailed view of Dmanisi skull 3
View of Dmanisi skull 3