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Early hominid ulna from the Omo basin, Ethiopia

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A NEARLY complete right ulna (Loc 40–19) was recovered by G. Eck in 1971 in Member E of the Shungura Formation in the lower Omo basin of Southern Ethiopia. It was found in a locality within unit E5 which immediately underlies Tuff F, the K–Ar age for which is 2.04 Myr1–4. This locality has yielded other vertebrate fossils but no further hominid remains in spite of intensive searching. The lower limb of fossil hominids is much better represented than the upper and the remains that do exist are mostly fragmentary. This is the first early hominid forearm bone to be recovered in a state of completeness that will allow locomotor inferences, based on pelvic and lower limb material, to be correlated with good evidence from the upper limb.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, California, 94720

    F. CLARK HOWELL

  2. Department of Anatomy, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London, W6 8RF

    B. A. WOOD

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HOWELL, F., WOOD, B. Early hominid ulna from the Omo basin, Ethiopia. Nature 249, 174–176 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249174a0

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