Assessment of the Studies on the Kocabas Fossil Human Remains

Turkey is located one of the possible migration corridors for humans and mammalians. It is a very important region to expose the migration corridors and draws attention of the paleoanthropologists. In 2002 fragments of a skullcap fossil were found in Kocabas village, Denizli. These find is a milestone to expose the migration corridors and the settlements of early Homo species. A recent work on the fossils gives a date about 780 KA. The morphological features and the age of the fossil clearly indicates that it can’t be defined as Homo sapiens. The studies on the specimen attribute the Kocabas specimen to Homo erectus. The aim of this article is to examine the studies on the Kocabas specimen and provide a source to Turkish readers.