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November 13, 2008: News Release

First Female
Homo erectus Pelvis,
from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Release Prepared by the Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project

Stone Age Institute
and
Indiana University's
CRAFT Research Center,
November 13, 2008

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Previous News Release on the Gona Project

March 24, 2006: News Release

New Hominid Cranium from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Release Prepared by the Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project

Stone Age Institute and CRAFT Research Center at Indiana University, March 21, 2006

RELEASED ON MARCH 24, 2006 AT 2:30 P.M. EASTERN TIME (U.S.)

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The new hominid skull held by Gona project member Asahmed Humet, who discovered the fossil on February 16, 2006
Credit: Sileshi Semaw/Stone Age Institute

Map of the fossil discovery site at Gona, Ethiopia
Credit: Scott Simpson



January 19, 2005

New Pliocene hominids from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

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Publication: Nature 3177 (PDF)

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