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Members of the Woranso-Mille project in the field trying to piece
together multiple fragments of a hominid tooth.
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Members of the Woranso-Mille project crawling at one of the hominid discovery localities looking for more fragments of teeth. This is a standard procedure at the discovery of broken isolated teeth.
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Yohannes Haile-Selassie excavating half of the Nefuraytu lower
jaw. The other half was found on the surface by team member Ahmed Elema. Most of the teeth were found by sifting the dirt for 12 days.
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Picking at Nefuraytu mandible locality. The sieved dirt from the
excavation is picked by team members. Most of the teeth were found by this technique. Ahmed Elema is shown here finding a premolar from the pick.
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Sieving operation at Nefuraytu mandible site. This is usually followed by picking the sieved dirt and recovering more pieces of the mandible. Eight of the Nefuraytu mandible teeth were found by sieving and picking.
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A view to the southeast at Nefuraytu, a locality within the Woranso-Mille project study area.
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