Word: krishtalka
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...other bones, uncovered about half a mile away from White's find, consist of seven skull fragments, all lying within 18 in. of one another. The discoverer was another expedition member, Leonard Krishtalka of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. Remarkably, three of the fossils, including a frontal bone, which is especially useful in assessing the possible shape of the skull, easily fit together. The age of the bones was determined from radioactive dating of a layer of cindery volcanic debris near the fossils. The bones, declared Clark, are the oldest clearly identifiable hominid, or humanlike, skull fragments ever found...
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