Předmostí 3

Předmostí 3 was an Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens from what is today the Czech Republic, geologically dated to the Late Pleistocene.^[1]

Predmosti 3

Cast of Předmostí 3 skull
Common name	Predmosti 3
Species	Human
Age	26,000 years
Place discovered	Přerov, Czechoslovakia
Date discovered	1982

Description

It was found in Předmostí, Přerov, and dated to 26,000 B.P.^[2] and has a cranial capacity of 1580 cubic centimetres (Holloway 2000;Holloway et al 2004)^[3]

Fate

The specimen was destroyed in 1945 in the Second World War as retreating German troops set fire to Mikulov Castle where the remains were stored.^[1]

Analysis

In a morphometric analysis of cranio-facial traits compared to modern humans, Předmostí 3 was found to correlate to a 73% similarity.^{[clarification needed][4]}

Upper Paleolithic skulls are at least as flat-faced as modern ones, except for Predmosti 3^[5]

The skull belongs to a morphological Upper Palaeolithic group that also includes Grotte des Enfants 4, Barma Grande 5, Pavlov 1 and Sunghir 1.^[6] Predmosti 3 had a retromolar space, which is absent from most modern humans.^[7] Předmostí 3's hand is similar to that of the Middle Paleolithic Skhul IV.^[8]