Most complete skeleton of ancient relative of man found

“It appears that we now have some of the most critical and complete remains of the skeleton,” said Berger.

Other team members were equally enthusiastic.

“It’s like putting together the pieces of a puzzle,” university laboratory manager Bonita De Klerk said.

The skeleton is thought to be around two million years old and would have been aged between nine and 13 years when the upright-walking tree climber died.

De Klerk said: “It was in packing this (stone) up in the vehicle to go and be scanned that one of our technicians actually noticed a tooth sticking out on the surface and he called Lee over and said, ‘Oh, I think this is a hominid tooth’, and he was right.”

The Cradle of Humankind, now a World Heritage Site, is the oldest continuous palaeontological dig in the world.

Source; AFP

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