Kadanuumuu
Kadanuumuu ("Big Man" in the Afar language[1]) is the nickname of KSD-VP-1/1, a 3.58-million-year-old partial Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in the Afar Region of Ethiopia in 2005 by a team led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Based on skeletal analysis, the fossil is believed to conclusively show that the species was fully bipedal.[2]
At more than 5 feet (152 cm) in stature, Kadanuumuu is much taller than the famous Lucy fossil of the same species discovered in the 1970s, and is approximately 400,000 years older.[2] Among other characteristics, Kadanuumuu's scapula, the oldest discovered to date for a hominid, is comparable to that of modern humans, suggesting that the species was land rather than tree-based.[2] Not all researchers agree with this conclusion.[3]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia -- Original peer-reviewed paper.
- Images of the fossil and its excavation
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