Homo helmei is described as 'archaic' Homo sapien, living 260,000 years ago. The single partial skull was discovered in 1932 by Professor T.F. Dreyer at the Florisbad site near Bloemfontein in South Africa. The 'Florisbad Skull' was classified as Homo helmei to mark its distinctiveness from other fossil Homo sapiens. It may be an intermediate form between Homo heidelbergensis
and Homo sapiens
[Brink 1988]. The skull consists of frontal and parietal pieces and an incomplete left side of the face (Conroy, 1997).