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Cheddar Man is a human male skeleton found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England.The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th millennium BC, corresponding to the Mesolithic period, and it appears that he died a violent death.
Ardi (ARA-VP-6/500) is the designation of the fossilized skeletal remains of an Ardipithecus ramidus, thought to be an early human-like female anthropoid 4.4 million years old. It is the most complete early hominid specimen, with most of the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands and feet, [ 1 ] more complete than the previously known Australopithecus ...
The finds lay on a diagonal band extending down and forward by about 6 m (20 ft) within the fissure. The lowest-placed skeleton (Minatogawa I, a male about 25 years old) was standing upside-down, but his bones were mostly in their anatomical positions. The other skeletons were found with their bones all mixed up and scattered over several meters.
Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name [a] given to a 12,000 – to 13,000-year-old human skeleton of a teenage female who was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun. [1]
Mysterious 500-year-old skeleton buried in palace of Cortes revealed to be Aztec woman ... She was estimated to have been 30 to 40 years old when she died and was buried underneath large rocks ...
The team of paleontologists who discovered, recovered and assembled the 150-million-year-old bones from a remote site in Utah believe the find is the most complete long-necked dinosaur skeleton on ...
The skeleton of a Bronze Age woman is set to be archived in a museum after being unearthed at a Kent building site. ... Estimated to have been between 30 and 35-years-old at the time of her death, ...