Sentences with phrase «afarensis sites»

It lived in what is now the central Afar region of the East African Rift Valley around 3.3 million years ago, only 35 kilometres north of known Australopithecus afarensis sites.

Not exact matches

BIG MARKS Footprints of the largest known Australopithecus afarensis, dating to nearly 3.7 million years ago, have been found in hardened volcanic ash at Tanzania's Laetoli site.

The cut marks had clearly been made using a sharp stone, and they were at a site that was used by Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis.

Lucy is small compared with other specimens of Australopithecus afarensis found at the same site.

Fossils of a new species of Australopithecus have been found near the site of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, suggesting the two species interacted

Laetoli is already famous for its Site G fossil footprints of (presumably) Australopithecus afarensis individuals.

The skeletal material was found in sandstone in the Woronso - Mille paleontological study area that lies some three dozen miles north of Hadar, the fossiliferous site that has yielded since 1973, the most fossils from a single site attributed to a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, the same species designation claimed for Kadanuumuu.

Later in the decade, specimens dated to 2.3 mya were found nearby at Hadar, the site where «Lucy», Australopithecus afarensis, was found in 1974.

The Ledi - Geraru jawbone provides insight to developmental changes in the jaw and teeth in Homo only 200,000 years after the last known occurrence of Australopithecus afarensis - made famous by the 1974 discovery of «Lucy» in the nearby Ethiopian site of Hadar.

Researchers unearthed footprints thought to belong to Australopithecus afarensis — one of the earliest hominin species — at a site in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1976.

FEET LIKE APE, A. afarensis... The recent description of four articulating foot bones from 3 - 3.5 Myr deposits in the South African cave site of Sterkfontein support this.