In the 1970s, mid‐Pliocene hominin fossils were found at the sites of Hadar in Ethiopia and
Laetoli in Tanzania. These samples constituted the first substantial evidence for hominins …

The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

Paranthropus boisei is a hominin taxon with a distinctive cranial and dental morphology. Its
hypodigm has been recovered from sites with good stratigraphic and chronological control …

Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and
the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated 2005 …

All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and
morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the …

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely
crush, cut, shear or grind food and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Providing an analysis of …

Over the past decade, discussions of the evolution of the earliest human ancestors have
focused on the locomotion of the australopithecines. Recent discoveries in a broad range of …

The systematic excavation of the Sima de los Huesos (SH) site in Sierra de Atapuerca
(Burgos, Spain) has yielded the largest hominin collection worldwide for the Middle …

The evolutionary origin of Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin species previously
known only by skeletal remains from Liang Bua in western Flores, Indonesia, has been …

The hominid species Australopithecus anamensis was originally described in 1995, with
new specimens and more secure dates given in 1998. This paper lists all fossils attributed to …