THE BALKAN HOMININ - A Forgotten Ancestor ~ with MIRJANA ROKSANDIC

Is the fossil jaw found in a Serbian cave in 2006 actually Homo heidelbergensis? Homo bodoensis? Or a totally new species?

DR MIRJANA ROKSANDIC is an N.S.E.R.C. Canada Research Chair in Human Evolution and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Winnipeg. Mirjana's interests focus upon Pleistocene hominin evolution in Europe, asking the big questions as to when, how, and why humans have moved across the vast expanses of land and sea.

Mirjana returns to Evolution Soup to talk about the Balkans and the incredible fossil cave sites that can be found there -- including an ancient fossil mandible find that was completely unexpected.


0:00 START
01:51 The significance of the Balkans
06:29 The Mala Balanica cave find
25:12 The Pešturina cave
31:12 Upcoming projects
32:56 Special thanks to
33:04 Our artists


LINKS FOR MIRJANA ROKSANDIC

SITE: https://bit.ly/4rwzW0D

Google Scholar: https://shorturl.at/2D8yA

University of Winnipeg: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/


BOOK

Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context https://shorturl.at/02mnn


RESEARCH PAPERS

Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis https://shorturl.at/VdjuN

A human mandible (BH-1) from the Pleistocene deposits of Mala Balanica cave https://bit.ly/44XuRp8

Unveiling a Balkan refugium through paleoart https://bit.ly/4phG6A4



FOOTAGE

Mala Balanica cave via Čačkalica


Original Kabwe hominid model by John Gurche


ARTWORK:

Tom Björklund:

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Julio Lacerda:

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