Hominid Skull Casts

Replica Hominid Skulls - Based on careful models of the original finds, these quality replicas convey all the details of the real thing. Many of paleoanthropology's most famous fossils are represented here, with new specimens becoming available on a regular basis.

We apologize, but prices may fluctuate by as much as 5% from what they are listed as on the web site at any given time. These increases are directly dependent upon the increases of the source company and usually only happen once a year.

Teaching Quality Replicas
Teaching quality replicas at an affordable price. Made from durable polyurethane resins, these casts are a great way to model the important anatomical landmarks and general form of any specimen.

Adapis Adapis A Eocene prosimian from North America and Europe $26.00
Aegyptopithecus zeuxis Aegyptopithecus An early bridge between prosimian primates and apes. $55.00
Australopithecus aethiops The Black Skull The robust australopithicine from Lake Turkana. $132.00
Homo Sapien Cro-Magnon I The earliest modern human (30,000 years). $187.00
Homo neanderthaliensis Gibraltar Pleistocene hominid from Forbes Quarry site. $187.00
Homo ergaster Homo ergaster Skull KNM-ER 3733 from Koobi Fora. $187.00
Homo habilis "Homo rudolfensis" Skull KNM-ER 1813 from Koobi Fora. $132.00
Australopithecus afarensis Lucy The poster-child of human evolution. $187.00
Australopithecus africanus Ms. Ples Female Skull STS-5 from Sterkfontein. $132.00
Homo erectus Peking Man Compsite reconstruction based on fragments (original specimen lost). $187.00
Dryopithecus africanus Pro-consul An ancestral Homonoid from the East African Miocene (22 mya). $132.00
Rooneyia omomyid Rooneyia Eocene primate of North America. $24.00
Homo sapien Skhul 5 Believed to represent a hybridization of modern human and Neanderthal. $187.00
Australopithecus africanus Taung Child Three-piece or one-piece reconstruction. $132.00
Australopithecus boisei Zinjanthropus Robust australopithicene from Olduvai Gorge. $187.00

Bone Clones Museum-Quality Replicas®
Bone Clones® casts are not just mere replicas. Instead, they are faithful reproductions of some of the best specimens nature has to offer. Original specimens from zoo and museum collections are the basis for these polyurethane casts. Once removed from the mold, each cast is hand-finished to match the color and texture of the original.

Aegyptopithecus zeuxis Aegyptopithecus Bone Clones® An early bridge between prosimian primates and apes. $149.00
Proconsul africanus Proconsul Bone Clones® The most complete Proconsul africanus cranium to date. Discovered by Mary Leakey in 1948 on Rusinga Island, Kenya. $149.00
Sivapithecus indicus Sivapithecus Bone Clones® This is realistic representation of the skull found in 1979 by D. Pilbeam and S.M. Ibrahim Shah on the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan. This recreation shows an Orang-like appearance and a hominid-like dentition that make this skull unique. $210.00
Australopithecus aethiopicus "Black Skull" Bone Clones® Discovered by A. Walker in 1985 on the west shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. $195.00
Australopithecus afarensis "Lucy" Bone Clones® "Lucy's" species was the species that gave rise to several branches of the Hominid evolutionary tree 2 to 3 MYA. This cast comes in both a light and a dark finish. $280.00
Australopithecus afarensis "Lucy" Bone Clones® Light finish $280.00
Australopithecus afarensis Australopithecus afarensis Bone Clones® This full size skull was sculpted for Bone Clones by scientific sculptor Steven Wagner. The australopithecines are only known from Africa and are believed to be the earliest known true hominids. $235.00
Australopithecus africanus "Mrs. Ples" Bone Clones® Considered to have lived 2.5 MYA, the Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples" was discovered in 1947 by R. Broom and J. Robinson in Sterkfontein, Transvaal, South Africa. $195.00
Australopithecus africanus "Mrs. Ples" Bone Clones® Reconstruction by Bone Clones® 2007. Includes reconstructed mandible. $280.00
Australopithecus africanus A. africanus Sts 71 Bone Clones® Discovered by R. Broom and J. Robinson in 1947 at Sterkfontein, South Africa. $185.00
Australopithecus africanus "Taung Child" Bone Clones® Discovered by M. de Bruyn in Taung, South Africa in 1924. The skull, though immature, features several hominid-like characteristics including: a rounded, high forehead lacking browridges, rounded dental arcade, no space between canine and first lower premolar, and a foramen magnum (the hole under the skull from which the spinal cord emerges) positioned forwardly under the skull, indicating bipedal locomotion. $195.00
Australopithecus boisei Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406 Bone Clones® Discovered by R. Leakey at Koobi Fora, Kenya, in 1969. This discovery helped to shed light on the controversial hypothesis that all australopithecines were of the same species, and tended to support the classification of boisei as a separate species of Australopithecus. $195.00
Australopithecus boisei "Nutcracker Man"/ Zinjanthropos Skull OH 5 Bone Clones® Discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 and originally classified as Zinjanthropus boisei by L. Leakey in Nature later that year. The accepted genus name has since changed to Australopithecus. A. boisei's massive skull features a wide, concave face, enormous, flat molars (about 4 times as big as modern H. sapiens) and cranial adaptations for powerful chewing, hence its nickname, Nutcracker Man. $195.00
Australopithecus boisei "Nutcracker Man"/Zinjanthropos Skull OH 5 Bone Clones® Complete with jaw. Jaw is spring attached to palate, allowing ease in handling. Springs easily attached and detached. $280.00
Australopithecus boisei Female BH-026 Bone Clones® Discovered in 1970 at Koobi Fora, Kenya by R. Leakey and H. Mutua. $195.00
Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48 Bone Clones® Discovered by Fourie in Swartkrans, South Africa in 1950. Determined to be a female skull. $195.00
Australopithecus robustus Skull SK-48 Bone Clones® Discovered by Fourie in Swartkrans, South Africa in 1950. Determined to be a female skull. $280.00(with restored teeth and lower jaw)
Gigantopithecus blacki Meganthropus Bone Clones® Reconstruction by Dr. Grover Krantz, based on Sangirin 31. Licensed exclusively to Bone Clones® by the estate of Grover Krantz. $260.00
Sahelanthropus tchadensis Sahelanthropus Bone Clones® Discovered by Michael Brunet's team in Chad in 2001. It could be that this specimen is a representative of an early hominid, predating A. afarensis aferensis by 3 to 4 million years; on the other hand, it might be an ancestor of the gorilla. The characteristics of the cranium are a mosaic of hominid-like (short face, the size and shape of the canines), and ape-like (very large browridges and small brain case) features. $280.00
Homo floresiensis Flores Skull LB1 Bone Clones® Discovered by P. Brown and his team on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2003. H. floresiensis is the subject of much debate centering around whether it is a new human species or a microcephalic human. P. Brown et al. originally proposed that the Flores hominid was the result of a long term process of isolation on an island known as "insular dwarfism." $305.00
Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813 Bone Clones® Discovered by K. Kimeu in 1973 at Koobi, Kenya. There is still controversy about this specimen's classification, with some scientists opting to classify it as an australopithecine and others believing it is a species of Homo. Some paleoanthropologists have raised the possibility that KNM-ER 1813 is the female counterpart to the Homo rudolfensis KNM-ER 1470. $385.00
Homo habilis Skull OH 24 Bone Clones® Discovered by P. Nzube in 1968. This nearly complete but very badly crushed specimen constituted the oldest hominid found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. $195.00
Homo rudolfensis Skull KNM-ER 1470 Bone Clones® Discovered by B. Ngeneo in 1972 at Koobi Fora in Kenya. The classification of this specimen has been a matter of debate since its discovery, with some scientists arguing in favor of Australopithecus, and some in favor of a species of Homo. $195.00
Homo ergaster Skull KNM-ER 3733 Bone Clones® Discovered by B. Ngeneo in 1975 in Koobi Fora, Kenya. Several teeth are intact, but no mandible was ever found. Of great significance is the fact that this skull was found in the same sediment layer that A. boisei KNM-ER 406 had been six years earlier, adding to the evidence against the single species hypothesis, the notion that only one hominid species existed at any time in history. $195.00
Homo ergaster "Nariokotome Boy"/"Turkana Boy" Bone Clones® Discovered by K. Kimeu in 1984 in Nariokotome, Kenya. The completeness of this skull allowed scientists to get accurate measurements of brain size. $280.00
Homo erectus Skull Sangiran 17 Bone Clones® Older than 1 MYA and possibly as old as 1.6 MYA. The Homo erectus Skull Sangiran 17 was discovered in 1969 by Mr. Towikromo in Java, Indonesia. $200.00
Homo erectus Dmanisi Bone Clones® 1.75 -2.0 MYA. The Dmanisi Homo erectus (ergaster) was discovered in 1999 by Abesalom Vekua, et al. in Dmanisi, Georgia. Our cast comprises the D2700 cranium and D2735 jaw. This small-brained specimen, found alongside Oldowan-like choppers and scrapers, undercuts the theory that hominids did not leave Africa until about one million years ago and only after becoming large-brained bipeds with well-developed tool-making abilities. $305.00
Homo erectus "Peking Man" Bone Clones® The re-creation offered here is based on a more recent reconstruction by Sawyer and Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History. 240,000 to 500,000 YA. The Homo erectus Skull Peking Man is also known as Pithecanthropus pekinensis (Sinathropus). The original reconstruction was prepared by Dr. F. Weidenreich and Mrs. Lucille Swan in 1937 from the fossil remains of several different individuals found in the caves at Zhoukoudian, China. $349.00
Homo antecessor Homo antecessor Bone Clones® 800,000 YA. Homo antecessor (Latin: human forbear) possessed characteristics of both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. With the bulky brow and big jaw of the now extinct Neanderthal and the cheekbones and nose of Homo sapiens, the researchers believe they have discovered a missing link that may cause a major reconsideration of human ancestry. $220.00
Homo heidelbergensis Skull Atapuerca 5 Bone Clones® 350,000 to 500,000 YA. Discovered in Spain in 1992 by Juan-Luis Arsuaga in the fossil-rich caves of Sima de los Huesos (Bone Pit), Sierra de Atapuerca. This site has thus far yielded over 5000 fossil hominid remains. Although somewhat smaller than other H. heidelbergensis, this individual is considered among the most complete pre-modern skulls ever found. $305.00
Homo neanderthalensis La Chapelle-aux-Saints Bone Clones® 50,000 YA. Discovered by A. and J. Bouyssomie and J. Bonneval in 1908 in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France. It was the most complete Neandertal skull found at the time. $280.00
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1 Bone Clones® Discovered in France in 1909 and described that same year by Capitan and Peyrony. La Ferrassie is considered to be a "classic" Neandertal, having features that best represent the features of its anatomy, including a low-vaulted cranium with projecting face and low forehead, pronounced double browridge, wide cheekbones, weak chin, heavily worn front teeth, a substantial nasal opening, and very large brain capacity (more than 1,600 cc). $280.00
Homo neanderthalensis (Child) Skull Teshik-Tash Bone Clones® Discovered by A. Okladnikov in Uzbekistan in 1938. This skull helped establish the easternmost range of Neanderthals. It has been suggested that this skeleton was buried in a ritual fashion. $280.00
fraud Piltdown Man Skull 1912 Fraud Bone Clones® This skull is a replica of Dawson's so-called "Dawn Man," which had been unearthed in a gravel pit at Piltdown near Sussex, England, by Charles Dawson in 1912. The find consisted of a modern appearing cranium, with a modern sized brain, combined with a primitive apelike jaw, and was found near the teeth of extinct animals dated at 5 million years old. For 40 years the skull bones of "Dawn Man" were considered genuine and hindered understanding of human evolution by supporting the biased view that a large brain led the evolutionary way toward modern humans. By 1953, the application of fluorine analysis and the work of two anatomists and an archeologist exposed Piltdown Man as a hoax. The "find" turned out to be a modern appearing human cranium and the mandible of a modern orangutan, buried along with the bones of the extinct animals. $255.00
Homo sapiens Cro-Magnon Bone Clones® 10,000-30,000 YA. Discovered in 1998 in the Rhine River deposits in Southwest Germany near Mainz. $195.00
Homo sapiens Cro-Magnon-1 Bone Clones® 30,000 to 32,000 YA. Discovered by L. Lartet and H. Christy on a cliff in 1868 (during the construction of railway lines in Les-Eyzies, France). Cro-Magnon, meaning "big cliff," represents the earliest modern humans from Western Europe. $195.00
Homo sapiens Cro-Magnon-1 Bone Clones® With Lower Jaw. $280.00
Kenyanthropus platyops Kenyanthropus platyops Skull KNM-WT-4000 from Lake Turkana, Kenya. $265.00
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis Skhul 5 Bone Clones® Discovered by T. McCown near Mount Carmel, Israel in 1932. Skhul 5 has been suggested as providing evidence of hybridization between humans and Neanderthals. $295.00
Homo sapiens Human Peruvian Male Skull with Cranial Binding and Trephination Bone Clones® Dated over 2,000 years old, this skull is an extreme example of binding and elongation. Cranial binding is the shaping of the skull when a child is very young, usually an infant. This wrapping is often done with rope or cloth by itself or against a wooden board. $249.00
Homo sapiens Human Peruvian Female Skull with Cranial Binding Bone Clones® $249.00

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Please note that with the exception of some human and primate casts, which may vary, we are no longer stocking casts in the store. This just means that your choice will require an additional one to two weeks to ship, depending on cast availability.

We apologize, but prices may fluctuate by as much as 5% from what they are listed as on the web site at any given time. These increases are directly dependent upon the increases of the source company and usually only happen once a year.

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