I suspect that this specimen came from the travertines of the Denizli Basin, Turkey.
Some revelent papers are:

Vialet, A., Prat, S., Wils, P. and Alcicek, M.C., 2018. The Kocabas hominin (Denizli
Basin, Turkey) at the crossroads of Eurasia: New insights from morphometric and
cladistic analyses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 17(1-2), pp.17-32.
[www.researchgate.net]
[www.sciencedirect.com]

Rausch, L., Alcicek, H., Vialet, A., Boulbes, N., Mayda, S., Titov, V.V., Stoica, M.,
Charbonnier, S., Abels, H.A., Tesakov, A.S. and Moigne, A.M., 2019. An integrated
reconstruction of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in
the Denizli Basin (SW Turkey). Geobios, 57, pp.77-95.
[sisn.pagepress.org]
[amu.hal.science]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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