Today’s fossil is codenamed KT12/H1. This partial jaw was lifted from a gravel desert surface, along what was once the shores of Lake Megachad, Koro Toro, Chad, north Africa. It was found at 08:45 am, local time on the 23rd of January 1995 by a French-Chadian team of fossil prospectors, led by Michel Brunet, French Palaeoanthropologist. The fossil was found in the vicinity of layers which were dated to between 3 and 3.5 million years of age. The teeth of KT12/H1 were isotopically analysed producing results that suggested this hominin ate mainly C4 sedges with associated root tubers. Sedges such as Cyperus which still grow around the shores of a much smaller Lake Chad today, may have been on this hominins menu, over 3 million years ago.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:58:12 +0000
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