List of human evolution fossils
Lower Paleolithic: 2.58 – 0.3 million years old

List of human evolution fossils

Section Title: Lower Paleolithic: 2.58 – 0.3 million years old
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Name	Age	Species	Date discovered	Country	Discovered by	Now located at

-	Taung 1 (Taung Child)	2.5 Ma	Australopithecus africanus	1924	South Africa	Raymond Dart

Paranthropus aethiopicus.JPG	KNM WT 17000 (The Black Skull)	2.5 Ma	Paranthropus aethiopicus	1985	Kenya	Alan Walker

-	BOU-VP-12/130	2.5 Ma	Australopithecus garhi	1997	Ethiopia	Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Original	UR 501 (Uraha jawbone)	2.4±0.1 Ma	Homo rudolfensis	1991	Malawi	Tyson Msiska, Timothy Bromage, Friedemann Schrenk

STS 71.	STS 71	2.6±0.2 Ma	Australopithecus africanus	1947	Sterkfontein, South Africa	Robert Broom and John T. Robinson

STS 52a and STS 52b	STS 52	2.3 Ma	Australopithecus africanus	1947	Sterkfontein, South Africa	Robert Broom

-	STS 5 (Mrs. Ples) (STS 14)	2.05 Ma	Australopithecus africanus	1947	Sterkfontein, South Africa	Robert Broom

-	TM 1517	2 Ma	Paranthropus robustus	1938	South Africa	Gert Terblanche

Australopithecus sediba.JPG	MH1 (Karabo)	1.98 Ma	Australopithecus sediba	2008	Malapa, South Africa	Lee R. Berger

-	KNM ER 1813	1.9 Ma	Homo habilis	1973	Kenya	Kamoya Kimeu

-	KNM ER 1470	1.9 Ma	Homo rudolfensis	1972	Kenya	Bernard Ngeneo

Replica made with a 3D printer	OH 24 (Twiggy)	1.8 Ma	Homo habilis	1968	Tanzania	Peter Nzube

-	SK 48	1.8 Ma	Paranthropus robustus	1948	Swartkrans, South Africa	Robert Broom

-	OH 8	1.8 Ma	Homo habilis	1960	Olduvai, Tanzania

-	OH 5 (Zinj or nutcracker man)	1.8 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	1959	Tanzania	Mary Leakey

-	D2700 (Dmanisi Skull 3)	1.8 Ma	Homo erectus	2001	Dmanisi, Georgia	David Lordkipanidze and Abesalom Vekua

Dmanisi skull 4, D3444	D3444 (Dmanisi Skull 4)	1.8 Ma	Homo erectus	2003	Dmanisi, Georgia	David Lordkipanidze

Dmanisi skull 5 de Dmanisi	D4500 (Dmanisi Skull 5)	1.8 Ma	Homo erectus	2005 (published in 2013)	Dmanisi, Georgia	David Lordkipanidze

KNM ER 62000–62003	1.84±0.06 Ma	Homo rudolfensis	2012	Koobi Fora, Kenya	Meave Leakey's team

-	OH 7	1.75 Ma	Homo habilis	1960	Tanzania	Jonathan Leakey

-	KNM ER 3733	1.75 Ma	Homo ergaster (aka Homo erectus)	1975	Kenya	Bernard Ngeneo

StW 53	1.75±0.25 Ma	Homo gautengensis	1976	Sterkfontein, South Africa	A. R. Hughes

-	SK 847	1.75±0.25 Ma	Homo habilis	1949	Swartkrans, South Africa

-	DNH 7 (Eurydice)	1.75±0.25 Ma	Paranthropus robustus	1994	South Africa	André Keyser

-	KNM ER 1805	1.74 Ma	Homo habilis	1973/4	Kenya	Paul Abell

Yuanmou Man	1.7 Ma or 0.6-0.5 Ma (disputed)	Homo erectus	1965	China	Fang Qian

Paranthropus-boisei-Nairobi.JPG	KNM ER 406	1.7 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	1969	Kenya	Richard Leakey

-	KNM ER 732	1.7 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	1970	Kenya	Richard Leakey

-	KNM ER 23000	1.7 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	1990	Koobi Fora, Kenya	Benson Kyongo

KNM-WT 17400.JPG	KNM WT 17400	1.7 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	Not known	Lake Turkana (West Lake Turkana) Kenya	unknown	National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (Kenia)

-	KNM WT 15000 (Turkana Boy)	1.6 Ma	Homo ergaster (aka Homo erectus)	1984	Lake Turkana (West Lake Turkana), Kenya	Kamoya Kimeu	Kenya National Museum

-	SK 46	1.65±0.15 Ma	Paranthropus robustus	1949	Swartkrans, South Africa	Robert Broom

Replica of the mandible of Peninj, P. boisei	Peninj Mandible	1.5 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	1964	Tanzania	Richard Leakey

OH 9, partial skull	OH 9 (Chellean Man)	1.5 Ma	Homo erectus	1960	Olduvai, Tanzania	Louis Leakey

KNM-ER 992. Replica. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid	KNM ER 992	1.5 Ma	Homo ergaster (aka Homo erectus)	1971	Kenya	Richard Leakey

Pithecanthropus modjokertensis Tjokro Handojo.JPG	Mojokerto 1 (Mojokerto child)	1.46±0.03 Ma	Homo erectus	1936	Indonesia	Andojo, G.H.R. von Koenigswald

Fossil KNM-ER 3883.JPG	KNM ER 3883	1.5±0.1 Ma	Homo erectus	1976	Kenya	Richard Leakey

KGA 10-525	1.4 Ma	Paranthropus boisei	1993	Konso-Gardula, Ethiopia	A. Amzaye

The Mandible of Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca)	Atapuerca Jawbone	1.2 Ma	Homo sp.	2008	Spain	Eudald Carbonell	Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain)

The Kocabas hominin calvaria.	Kocabas	1.1 Ma	Homo erectus	2002	Turkey	M. Cihat Alçiçek

-	Daka	1.0 Ma	Homo erectus	1997	Ethiopia	Henry Gilbert

-	Sangiran 4	1 Ma	Homo erectus	1939	Indonesia	G.H.R. von Koenigswald

-	ATD6-15 and ATD6-69 (Niño de la Gran Dolina 342)	0.9 Ma	Homo erectus	1994	Spain	Bermúdez & Arsuaga	Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain)

-	Sangiran 2	1.15±0.45 Ma	Homo erectus	1937	Indonesia	G.H.R. von Koenigswald

Madam Buya	Madam Buya	1.0±0.4 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis or Homo erectus	1997	Eritrea	Ernesto Abbate	National Museum of Eritrea

-	Trinil 2 Pithecanthropus-1 or Java Man	0.85±0.15 Ma	Homo erectus	1891	Indonesia	Eugène Dubois

Mandible Ternifine III	Ternifine 2-3 now Tighennif	0.7 Ma	Homo erectus	1954	Algeria	C. Arambourg & B. Hoffstetter

Sangiran 17-02.JPG	Sangiran 17	0.7 Ma	Homo erectus	1969	Indonesia	S. Sartono

-	Peking Man	0.73±0.05 Ma	Homo erectus	1921	China	Davidson Black	Lost/stolen

-	Bodo	0.6 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis or Homo erectus	1976	Ethiopia	A. Asfaw

Unterkiefer von Mauer (Replika).JPG	Mauer 1 (Heidelberg Man)	0.5 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis	1907	Germany	Daniel Hartmann

-	Saldanha man	0.5 Ma	Homo rhodesiensis	1953	South Africa

-	Boxgrove Man	0.5 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis	1994	UK	Natural History Museum

Arago XXI	Arago 21 (Tautavel Man)	0.45 Ma	Homo erectus	1971	France	Henry de Lumley

Hexian	0.45±0.5 Ma	Homo erectus	1980	China

Argil Ceprano Man	0.45±0.5 Ma	Homo cepranensis /Homo heidelbergensis	1994	Ceprano, Italy	Italo Biddittu	Servizio di antropologia, Soprintendenza ai beni culturali, Regione Lazio, Italy

-	Gawis cranium	0.35±1.5 Ma	Homo erectus/Homo sapiens	2006	Ethiopia	Asahmed Humet

-	Skull 5 (Miguelón)	0.4 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis	1992	Spain	Bermúdez, Arsuaga & Carbonell	Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain)

-	Aroeira 3	0.4 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis	2014	Portugal	Professor João_Zilhão Portuguese paleoanthropologist, Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona Rolf Quam, Associate Professor, Biological Anthropologist	Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon

Replica	Swanscombe Man	0.4 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis	1935	UK	Alvan T Marston

-	Salé	0.4 Ma	Homo rhodesiensis	1971	Morocco	A quarry worker

Replica	Swanscombe Man	0.4 Ma	Homo Neanderthalensis	1935, 1936, 1955	Swanscombe	Alvan T Marston, John J Wymer and Adrian Gibson	Natural History Museum

Replica made by a 3D printer	Ndutu	0.35 Ma	Homo rhodesiensis	1973	Tanzania	A.A. Mturi

-	Steinheim Skull	0.35 Ma	Homo heidelbergensis	1933	Germany

-	Dinaledi Chamber hominins	0.325±0.09 Ma	Homo naledi	2013	South Africa	Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker	University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)

Sentence(s)

OH 5 (Zinj or "Nutcracker Man") contains the species Paranthropus boisei.

final_sentence: OH 5 (Zinj or "Nutcracker Man") contains the species Paranthropus boisei.