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Image 1
Anatomically arranged elements of partial skeleton KSD-VP-1/1. The male Australopithecus afarensis specimen found in Ethiopia was nicknamed "Kadanuumuu." The initial analysis of the specimen will be published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of June 21, 2010. Haile-Selassie Y, et al. (2010) An Early Australopithecus afarensis Postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 10.1073/pnas.1004527107
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Photo credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Liz Russell, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Used with permission from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Image 2
The first element of the partial skeleton (KSD-VP-1/1) that was found on February 10, 2005 by Alemayehu Asfaw. It is a profimal half of the ulna, one of the bones of the lower arm.
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Photo courtesy: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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Parts of the hip bone (pelvis) as they were being dug out of the ground by excavation.
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Photo courtesy: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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After the ulna was found, the lose dirt around the bone, piled from about 30 square meters of an area, was sieved in order to recover all the bones that might have scattered around after exposure to the surface.
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Photo courtesy: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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The clavicle as it was found, in place as it was buried in the deposits.
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Photo courtesy: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie excavating one of the six rib bones found during the excavation. The use of dental tools was absolutely necessary to extract these highly fragile bones.
Photo courtesy: Woranso-Mille Project
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This is this excavation of “Kadanuumuu” in 2006. Team member Ahmed Elema is cleaning the excavation area with a push-broom before resuming excavation. Each yellow flag represents an excavated specimen.
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Photo courtesy: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 2006
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Some of the team members at the end of an excavation day in 2007. Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie is shown in the top row, fourth from the left. A total of 65 people have participated in the excavation from 2005 to 2009.
Photo courtesy: Woranso-Mille Project
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Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator and head of Physical Anthropology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, in Ethiopia in 2007.
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Photo credit: Liz Russell, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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Image 10
The Woranso-Mille project has been conducting field research in the central Afar region of Ethiopia since 2004. The male Australopithecus afarensis partial skeleton (KSD-VP-1/1), nicknamed "Kadanuumuu," was found at a locality known as Korsi Dora in Ethiopia’s Afar region. This is located about 210 air miles (336 kilometers) northeast of the capital Addis Ababa and 30 air miles (48 kilometers) north of Hadar, the site where the famous "Lucy" skeleton was found in 1974.
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