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Approximate age:407,500 years old=average of minimum (0.385 Ma) and maximum (0.43 Ma)

Date based on: stratigraphic correlation to dated units See map of sites with similar ages

Dating reference: Manzi, G., Magri, D., Milli, S., Palombo, M. R., Margari, V., Celiberti, V., et al. The new chronology of the Ceprano calvarium (Italy). Journal of human evolution.
Muttoni, G., Scardia, G., Kent, D. V., Swisher, C. C., & Manzi, G. (2009). Pleistocene magnetochronology of early hominin sites at Ceprano and Fontana Ranuccio, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
previous, much older dates: Manzi, G., Mallegni, F., & Ascenzi, A. (2001). A cranium for the earliest Europeans: phylogenetic position of the hominid from Ceprano, Italy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98(17), 10011.

Hominids: Homo erectus      

Archaeology:Acheulean      

Important specimens: Ceprano calvaria

Notes: Specimen retrieved by construction crew from road cut in highway built in the early 1990's (discovery was made by bulldozer crew in March of 1994) through Italian farmland. The Ceprano locality has proven difficult to date. A major provenience revision in Muttoni et al. (2009) changed the date from a mid-Brunhes (~0.9) Ma to ~0.45 Ma. The early date is very commonly cited. The biggest obstacle is correlating the hominin-bearing unit to dated units from established local sections. No archaeology found with specimen, but some found in adjacent deposits

Location: Campogrande, Lazio, Italy
Map location/coordinates reference: Manzi, G., Magri, D., Milli, S., Palombo, M. R., Margari, V., Celiberti, V., et al. The new chronology of the Ceprano calvarium (Italy). Journal of human evolution. Coordinates listed in the following are displaced approximately 300 meters: Mallegni, F., Carnieri, E., Bisconti, M., Tartarelli, G., Ricci, S., Biddittu, I., et al. (2003). Homo cepranensis sp. nov. and the evolution of African-European Middle Pleistocene hominids. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2(2), 153-159.

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