Homo cepranensis - Three hundred times as ancient as Rome
By Eugene M. McCarthy, Ph.D.
"Ceprano Man" has not, however, been accepted as distinct from the contemporary and far better documented Homo erectus. And, in fact, there really seems to be no good reason to name a new hominid on the basis of a single, not particularly distinctive, skull fragment. But most paleoanthropologists would go so far as to agree that the individual to whom this skullcap belonged does at least qualify as the oldest known Italian. The Ceprano material is about 300 times as old as the supposedly ancient city of Rome.
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