abstract:Bodo is the catalogue number of a fossilized skull which was discovered by Alemayhew Asfaw, Paul Whitehead and Craig Wood in 1976 in Bodo D'ar, Awash River valley of Ethiopia. The skull is 600,000 years old and is intermediate in shape between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, though many palaeoanthropologists have classified this as a specimen of Homo heidelbergensis.