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This Ethiopian site yielded both the famous 3.2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton and stone tools dating back 2.5 million years.
- Hadar
- Olduvai Gorge
- Sterkfontein
- Laetoli
The discovery of this species, with its small brain but human-like feet found in a South African cave in 2013, shocked researchers with its mix of primitive and modern traits.
- Australopithecus sediba
- Homo erectus
- Homo naledi
- Homo heidelbergensis
The 3.6-million-year-old footprints preserved in volcanic ash at this Tanzanian site provided the first direct evidence that early hominins walked upright.
- Olduvai Gorge
- Laetoli
- Koobi Fora
- Swartkrans
Often called "Turkana Boy," this 1.5-million-year-old skeleton from Kenya remains the most complete early human ancestor ever found, standing about 5 feet 3 inches tall at death.
- Homo erectus
- Homo habilis
- Australopithecus africanus
- Homo heidelbergensis
This nickname was given to the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in 1974, named after a Beatles song playing at the celebration that night.
- Ardi
- Selam
- Lucy
- Mrs. Ples
This famous Tanzanian gorge, sometimes called the "Cradle of Mankind," yielded key Homo habilis and Paranthropus boisei fossils through decades of Leakey family excavations.
- Olduvai Gorge
- Great Rift Valley
- Sterkfontein
- Awash Valley
The earliest known stone tool technology, consisting of simple choppers and flakes dating to about 2.6 million years ago, takes its name from Olduvai Gorge.
- Acheulean
- Mousterian
- Levallois
- Oldowan
This extinct human species, known for stocky builds and surviving Ice Age Europe until about 40,000 years ago, interbred with modern humans whose descendants carry their DNA today.
- Homo erectus
- Neanderthals
- Denisovans
- Homo heidelbergensis
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