The fossilized skull of a 35-year-old adult male displays the anthropological features of the hypodigm of "Homo neanderthalensis" who lived during the Middle-Upper Pleistocene between 170,000 and 130,000 BP. Yet a number of phenetic peculiarities exist, such as the shape of the brow ridges, the relative dimension of the mastoids and the general architecture of the cranial vault, which according to the research team of the Sapienza University of Rome support accepted speciation chronology. "It shows archaic traits, making the Altamura Man a sort of morphological bridge between the previous human species such as "Homo heidelbergensis" and the Neanderthals".