🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE A fossil that sat exposed at a cave site for eight years upends human family tree.
This fragment of a Homo erectus cranium was almost overlooked by researchers. This article appeared inannual state of science issue as “Nope, This Skull Was No Baboon” Support our science journalism by becoming aFor eight years, a crunched cranium protruded from an excavation pit in South Africa’s Drimolen Cave. Archaeologists ignored the fossil, assuming it to be a baboon, until they swept up pieces that had crumbled free in 2015. Early on, the remains looked more human than monkey.
Jesse Martin and Angeline Leece, researchers at Australia’s La Trobe University, jigsaw-puzzled together more than 150 bone bits, each no bigger than a quarter. Some were so fine that light shone through. Analysis confirmed the fossil wasn’t baboon. Then, in 2018, another skull surfaced at the Drimolen site, and chronometric dating placed both craniums around 2 million years old. The researchers published their big news in, a Lucy-like relative with jumbo molars.
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