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Prehistoric Cultures Class Slides Set # 01B Tim Roufs’ section Kinds of Major Finds and Announcements of the Past Quarter Century: Australopithecines and other early hominids

Australopithecus

3.5 mya Australopithecus suggesting our ancestors were less chimp-like than we thought

31 January 2003

WT “The Black Skull” 2.5 mya Australopithecus aethiopicus (aka Australopithecus boisei)

KNM-WT Kenya National Museum West Lake Turkana, Kenya Find # 17,000

Fossil Naming Conventions K

KNM-WT Source: BraindanceBraindance

Other early hominids

Orrorin tugenensis Femur

July 23, 2001 Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

“Toumai”

“Toumai”

KNM-WT Sahelanthropus tchadensis