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OH 7 (Olduvai Hominid № 7), also nicknamed "Johnny's Child", [1] is the type specimen of Homo habilis. The fossils were discovered on November 4, 1960 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by Jonathan and Mary Leakey. The remains are dated to approximately 1.75 million years, and consist of fragmented parts of a lower mandible (which still holds ...
The discovery of the 1.8 Ma Georgian Dmanisi skulls in the early 2000s, which exhibit several similarities with early Homo, has led to suggestions that all contemporary groups of early Homo in Africa, including H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, are the same species and should be assigned to H. erectus.
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History SK 847 [38] 2.25–1.80 Homo habilis: 1949 Swartkrans, South Africa: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History OH 24 (Twiggy) [39] 1.80 Homo habilis: 1968 Tanzania: Peter Nzube OH 8 [40] 1.80 Homo habilis: 1960 Olduvai, Tanzania: D2700 (Dmanisi Skull 3) 1.81±0.40 [41] Homo erectus: 2001 Dmanisi, Georgia
These are proposed species names for fossils from about 1.9–1.6 Ma, whose relation to Homo habilis is not yet clear. Homo rudolfensis refers to a single, incomplete skull from Kenya. Scientists have suggested that this was a specimen of Homo habilis, but this has not been confirmed. [65] Homo georgicus, from Georgia, may be an intermediate ...
Excavation site at Dmanisi in 2007. Dmanisi is located in southern Georgia, about 85 kilometres (52.8 miles) from the country's capital, Tbilisi.It was founded as a city in the Middle Ages and has thus been a site of archaeological interest for some time, with a prominent archaeological excavation site being located within the ruins of the old city on a promontory overlooking the Mashavera and ...
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.
The genus Homo has been taken to originate some two million years ago, since the discovery of stone tools in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in the 1960s. Homo habilis (Leakey et al., 1964) would be the first "human" species (member of genus Homo) by definition, its type specimen being the OH 7 fossils.
KNM ER 1813 is a skull of the species Homo habilis.It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by Kamoya Kimeu in 1973, and is estimated to be 1.9 million years old.. Its characteristics include an overall smaller size than other Homo habilis finds, but with a fully adult and typical H. habilis morphology.