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SCIENCE
Volume 299, Issue 5610, Pages 1217-1221Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075374
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Excavation in the previously little-explored western portion of Olduvai Gorge indicates that hominid land use of the eastern pateobasin extended at least episodically to the west. Finds included a dentally complete Homo maxilla (OH 65) with lower face, Oldowan stone artifacts, and butchery-marked bones dated to be between 1.84 and 1.79 million years old. The hominid shows strong affinities to the KNM ER 1470 cranium from Kenya (Homo rudolfensis), a morphotype previously unrecognized at Olduvai. ER 1470 and OH 65 can be accommodated in the H. habilis holotype, casting doubt on H. rudolfensis as a biologically valid taxon.
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