Specimen List

Australopithecus sediba

MH2

  • Geologic Age:

    1.95 Ma - 1.78 Ma

  • Discovery Date:

    4 Sep 2008

  • Discovered By:

    Lee R Berger

  • Discovery Location:

    Malapa, Grootvleispruit Valley, Gauteng, South Africa

  • Specimen Age:

    Adult

  • Sex:

    Female

  • Original Publication:

    Berger et al. 2010

In 2008, MH2 was one of two specimens found encased in cave deposits at the Malapa site in Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is likely that the hominins fell to their deaths down the shaft of a limestone cavern where they were then washed into a sediment trap4. Both specimens date to between 1.78 to 1.95 Ma1. Some anthropologists have placed Australopithecus sediba as an ancestral link between the australopiths and Homo, while others consider it too young to be an ancestor to Homo.


MH1

  • Common Name:

    Karabo

  • Geologic Age:

    1.95 Ma-1.78 Ma

  • Discovery Date:

    15 Aug 2008

  • Discovered By:

    Matthew Berger

  • Discovery Location:

    Malapa, Grootvleispruit Valley, Gauteng, South Africa

  • Cranial Capacity:

    420 cc

  • Specimen Age:

    Juvenile, 12-13 years of age

  • Sex:

    Male

  • Original Publication:

    Berger et al. 2010

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