In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution ... the distal shaft of an adult humerus (lower half of the upper arm bone). “When I first saw the small humerus, I thought ...

The Ushikawa fossils were originally presented as a humerus bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who was alive more than 20,000 years ago.

He describes them as in the same mineralised condition as the bones of the mammoth ... mammals with which they were associated. A human humerus, in the same state of preservation, was found ...

anamensis' jaws are more primitive than those of later hominids. And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A.

“From these observations and taking into account the individual variation in bear bone morphology, we were able to determine that the Ushikawa 'human humerus' fossil is a fragment of the shaft of a ...