Olduvai Hominid 62

8 mya and called OH 62. Although the skull is shattered, enough of the face is preserved to suggest similarities to early Homo. The find is especially important because of the limbs, which show that OH 62 was a very small hominin. The arm is long relative to the…

…Homo habilis, later known as Olduvai Hominid 62 (OH 62), at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in 1986. OH 62, dated to 1.8 million years ago, was the first H. habilis specimen discovered that had parts of arms and legs. During his tenure at IHO, Johanson oversaw the discovery of AL…