At the same time as the occipital, 'several lower'[2] milk teeth were discovered 8 meters from the cranium, found close in relation to the Zhoukoudian hominins, and catalogued VSZ I.

[2] A replica of the Samu occipital bone is on exhibit in the Hungarian National Museum,[6] as well as associated tools and fossilized animal footprints.

[8] In 2009, news sources claimed that a 14 year-old girl vandalized hominin material from the site and local elementary school children broke into the excavation area, marking up the walls and trampling faunal fossils.

However, it was also stated by officials that no serious damage, aside from several broken bones, was caused by this, and the site remains valuable as no important finds could be accessed.

Originally, it was reported that the girl has opened the exhibition space of the local with a key, scribbling rock band names on the windows and display cases sometime from January 28 to February 4, when the museum was closed and unable to be checked on.

The occipital torus is moderately wide, and a deep sulcus that is somewhat continuous along the superior nuchal line makes this formation pronounced.

Of the many scientists who examined Samu, Wolpoff concluded that the bone was relatively nondiagnostic in that it could not be conclusively generalized from its preservation and taphonomic damage.

[3] Others remained divided by the apparently large volume and Neanderthal-like traits (which drew criticism, as the nuchal region of Samu is unlike Neanderthals).

Stringer first classified the fragment as a late-surviving preneanderthal, a term that describes specimens typically assigned to Homo heidelbergensis with Neanderthal affinities.

[11] Later discoveries, such as the Petralona skull, compare well in the occipital wall and Soukup and Mechurová (2018) support assignment to Homo heidelbergensis.

[15] In 1966, István Skoflek discovered evidence of fire and charred animal bones dating to 350 ka probably belonging to a hunting camp.

The average implement is 2.4 cm in length, and the humans at this site used these for cutting, carving, leatherworking, and wood manufacturing to produce spears and other items.

[3] The hominins lived in an area that was mid-mountainous at the western foot of a mountain with open calcareous tuff or freshwater limestone pools[16] on the verge of what once was a thermal lake, which is consistent with other Neanderthal populationsa.