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The preliminary report of a significant new discovery by IHO scientists will soon be published. Click here to read a more complete account of this find. In human paleontology there are often more opinions and interpretations than there are fossils. Happily, however, the newly discovered Australopithecus afarensis skull and other remains from the Hadar Formation in Ethiopia, described by Kimbel, Johanson and Rak, will go a long way to settle some of the most heated controversies surrounding the earliest species in the human lineage. Dr. Bill Kimbel, IHO's Director of Paleoanthropology, Dr. Yoel Rak of Tel Aviv University, and Erella Hovers of Hebrew University led the Israeli-American team in its first, exploratory field season at the ancient cave, which was once home to hominids during one of the most interesting and controversial periods in human evolutionary history.