Nature 260, 293 - 297 (25 March 1976); doi:10.1038/260293a0

Plio—Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia

D. C. Johanson^* & M. Taieb^†

^*Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
^†Laboratoire de Géologie du Quaternaire, CNRS, Meudon-Bellevue, France

The International Afar Research Expedition has now recovered remains of twelve hominid individuals from geological deposits estimated to be 3.0 Myr in Hadar, Ethiopia. A partial skeleton represents the most complete hominid known from this period. The collection suggests that Homo and Australopithecus coexisted as early as 3.0 Myr ago.

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