London - A team of international scientists said yesterday that it had unearthed the skull and jaw of an early human which will shed new light on the species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The palaeo-anthropologist Mary Leakey identified the species Australopithecus boisei (A.boisei), a hominid which used tools and walked upright, more than 40 years ago after discovering skull fragments in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
The latest find, from Konso in Ethiopia, is the first relatively complete skull of the A.boisei.
