At nearby Laetoli the oldest known hominid footprints, the Laetoli footprints, were discovered by Mary Leakey in 1978, and estimated to be about 3. 6 million years old and probably made by Australopithecus afarensis.

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Paleoanthropology ( English: Palaeoanthropology ; from Greek: παλαιός ( palaeos ) " old, ancient "), anthrōpos ( ἄνθρωπος ), " man ", understood to mean humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study "), which combines the disciplines of paleontology and physical anthropology, is the study of ancient humans as found in fossil hominid evidence such as petrifacted bones and footprints.

A line of hominid fossil footprints, discovered in 1976 by Mary Leakey, is preserved in powdery volcanic ash from an eruption of the 20 km distant Sadiman Volcano.

The hominid prints were produced by three individuals, one walking in the footprints of the other, making the original tracks difficult to discover.

The hominid prints were produced by three individuals, one walking in the footprints of the other, making the original tracks difficult to discover.

At Nahoon, trackways of at least five species of vertebrates, including three hominid footprints, are preserved as casts.

Geotextiles have been used to protect the fossil hominid footprints of Laetoli in Tanzania from erosion, rain, and tree roots.

A hominid skull was been found by Michel Brunet in 2002, in Borkou, that is more than 7 million years old, the oldest discovered anywhere in the world ; it has been given the name Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

These remains are among the oldest hominid remains ever found.

One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.

Likewise, every hominid species found on the Ringworld is descended from Pak breeders, and all are susceptible to the virus of Tree-of-life.

* 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the " Piltdown Man " skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

The area is also home to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which contains the Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest hominid fossils are found, as well as the Ngorongoro Crater.

The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.

Just to the southeast of the park is Olduvai Gorge, where many of the oldest hominid fossils and artifacts have been found.

" In the decades prior to its exposure as a forgery in 1953, scientists increasingly regarded Piltdown as an enigmatic aberration inconsistent with the path of hominid evolution as demonstrated by fossils found elsewhere.

* Michel Brunet, a paleontologist at the University of Poitiers, France, announced in the journal Nature that a 7-million-year-old skull found in the desert of Chad is the earliest hominid fossil ever found.

Since 1964, archeologists have been working at numerous areas of the Archeological Site of Atapuerca, where they have found ancient hominid and human remains, the former dating to more than one million years ago, with artifacts from the Paleolithic and Bronze Ages of man.

It was claimed by Egyptian scientists to have the possible age of 2-3 million years old, which would make it the oldest fossilized hominid footprint ever found.

Deinotherium fossils have been uncovered at several of the African sites where remains of prehistoric hominid relatives of modern humans have also been found.

Raymond Arthur Dart ( 4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988 ) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominid closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province Northwest.

In 1924, Dart discovered the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominid closely related to humans, at Taung in North South Africa, in the province Northwest.

Early remnants of hominid occupation in North Africa, for example, were found in Ain el Hanech, near Saïda ( c. 200, 000 BCE ); in fact, more recent investigations have found signs of Oldowan technology there, and indicate a date of up to 1. 8 million BC.

Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.

These were the first specimens of early hominid remains to be found outside of Africa or Europe.

There, he found a hominid skeleton, but unfortunately the start of World War I halted his research.

* First fossil skull fragments of the hominid ' Toumaï ' ( Sahelanthropus tchadensis ; 7 million years BP ) found by a team led by Michel Brunet in Chad.

Donald Johanson, who discovered the 3. 18 million year old fossil hominid Lucy ( Australopithecus ) in Ethiopia, is also a professor at ASU, as well as George Poste, Chief Scientist for the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative.

Joseph Jordania recently suggested, that dance, together with rhythmic music and body painting, was designed by the forces of natural selection at the early stage of hominid evolution as a potent tool to put groups of human ancestors in a battle trance, a specific altered state of consciousness.

In September 2004, at Liang Bua Cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists discovered small skeletons that they described as a previously unknown hominid species, Homo floresiensis.

It is inhabited by a number of different evolved hominid species, and includes representative samples of Bandersnatchi, Martians and Kzinti, and possibly other alien races that existed at the time of its construction.

The region's roots go back further to the location of some of Europe's earliest hominid finds at Boxgrove.

An extremely old hominid footprint was discovered in 2007 at Siwa Oasis.

* OH, a prefix of hominid fossils found at Olduvai Gorge, e. g. OH 13 (" Cindy ")

Joseph Jordania recently suggested, that dance, together with rhythmic music and body painting, was designed by the forces of natural selection at the early stage of hominid evolution as a potent tool to put groups of human ancestors in a battle trance, a specific altered state of consciousness.

The image of a bipedal hominid with a small brain and primitive face was quite a revelation to the paleoanthropological world at the time.

Inscription at the entrance to the " Yeren Cave " in western Hubei Province. The Yeren (), variously referred to as the Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman, (), or Man-Monkey, (), is a legendary creature said to be an as yet undiscovered hominid residing in the remote mountainous forested regions of western Hubei.

Brain began working at sites in the Cradle including Coopers and he soon would initiate his three decade work at Swartkrans cave which would result in the recovery of the second largest sample of hominid remains from the Cradle.

In 1997 Kevin Kuykendall and Colin Menter of the University of the Witwatersrand found two fossil hominid teeth at the site of Gondolin.

Also in 2001 the first hominid fossils and stone tools were discovered in-situ at Coopers.

Mrs Ples, the oldest hominid skull found at Sterkfontein cave

The discovery of the remains of a meter-tall hominid on Flores Homo floresiensis, alive at least as recently as 13, 000 years ago, has inspired more literal interpretations of the Ebu Gogo stories.

Then in 1996 further hominid remains were found: two incisor teeth from a single individual recovered from the lower freshwater deposits at the site.