KNM-OG 45500
Exhibit Item
Site:
Olorgesailie, Kenya
Year of Discovery:
Discovered by:
A team led by Richard Potts
Age:
About 900,000 years old
Species:
Homo erectus
A 62-year search
This browridge is part of a braincase discovered by a Smithsonian team at Olorgesailie, a site known since 1942 for abundant stone tools. The discovery, made 62 years after research began there, is the first early human fossil known from Olorgesailie.