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04.03.20

In South Africa, Three Hominins, Including Earliest Homo erectus, Lived during the Same Period

Nearly 2 million years ago, three hominin genera - Australopithecus, Paranthropus and the earliest Homo erectus lineage - lived as contemporaries in the karst landscape of what is now South Africa, according to a new geochronological evaluation of the hominin fossil-rich Drimolen Paleocave complex.

03.04.20

Smallest Homo erectus Cranium in Africa and Diverse Stone Tools Found at Gona, Ethiopia

Journal Article

An international research team led by scientists from the U.S. and Spain, supported in part by The Leakey Foundation, has discovered a nearly complete cranium of an early human ancestor, estimated to about 1.5 million years ago, and a partial cranium dated to about 1.26 million years ago, from the Gona study area in Ethiopia’s Afar State.

08.30.16

Grantee Spotlight: Mathew Fox

Grantee Spotlight

Mathew Fox, PhD candidate from the University of Arizona, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2016 cycle for his project entitled "Paleoenvironments of Homo erectus occupations in the Luonan Basin, China."

08.15.14

Fossil Friday: Daka Homo erectus

Grantee Spotlight

This week’s Fossil Friday is Specimen BOU-VP-2/66. The Daka Calvaria, a million year old Homo erectus skullcap discovered in 1997 by Leakey Foundation grantee Henry Gilbert, who was a Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Berkeley at the time of the discovery. The fossil was discovered in the Middle Awash region of the Afar Rift in eastern Ethiopia, which has been the source of many fossil… more »

Archives for homo erectus

In South Africa, Three Hominins, Including Earliest Homo erectus, Lived during the Same Period

Smallest Homo erectus Cranium in Africa and Diverse Stone Tools Found at Gona, Ethiopia

Grantee Spotlight: Mathew Fox

Fossil Friday: Daka Homo erectus