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Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
A large crater-like lesion just above the skull's right orbit suggests that the man may have also been suffering from a bone infection. Excavated in 1903, Cheddar Man is Britain's oldest near-complete human skeleton. The remains are kept by London's Natural History Museum, in the Human Evolution gallery. [2] [3]
The finds lay on a diagonal band extending down and forward by about 6 m (20 ft) within the fissure. The lowest-placed skeleton (Minatogawa I, a male about 25 years old) was standing upside-down, but his bones were mostly in their anatomical positions. The other skeletons were found with their bones all mixed up and scattered over several meters.
Bone artifacts and an ash seam dated to 32,000±1000 BP. [54] Europe: France: 32: Chauvet Cave: The cave paintings in the Chauvet Cave in southern France have been called the earliest known cave art, though the dating is uncertain. [55] Europe: Czech Republic: 31: Mladeč caves: Oldest human bones that clearly represent a human settlement in ...
La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, are the partial skeleton of a woman. [ 2 ] At around 18–25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 years BP (Before Present). [ 3 ]
The skeleton of a Bronze Age woman is set to be archived in a museum after being unearthed at a Kent building site. The well-preserved remains were discovered as work started on a site earmarked ...
LEFLORE COUNTY (KFSM) -- A LeFlore County family found a coffin with a real human skeleton inside of it in their barn near Panama on January 30th, deputies said. Authorities were called to the ...
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins. Penguin Books (1987). ISBN 0-14-022638-9; Morwood, Mike & van Oosterzee, Penny. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the 'Hobbits' of Flores, Indonesia. Smithsonian Books (2007). ISBN 978-0-06-089908-0; Oppenheimer, Stephen. Out of Eden: The Peopling of the ...