Four-million-year-old hominids from East Lake Turkana, Kenya

Am J Phys Anthropol. 1994 Jan;93(1):55-65. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330930104.

Abstract

A piece of mandible and several isolated teeth are reported from fluviatile sediments older than 4 million years at East Lake Turkana. They most closely resemble hominids from Laetoli, Tanzania and Hadar, Ethiopia which have been assigned to Australopithecus afarensis.

Publication types

  • Historical Article
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • History, Ancient
  • Hominidae / anatomy & histology*
  • Humans
  • Kenya
  • Mandible / anatomy & histology
  • Paleodontology*
  • Tooth / anatomy & histology