"Freeze-Dried Specimens"

11000 YA. The 5¹/₄" Farpoint Clovis spearpoint was found in 2005 by Edgar Perez at a residential construction site in Malibu. The first such artifact found on the West Coast, the Clovis spearpoint indicates the presence of Clovis people 11,000 years ago and raises questions about the origins of the earliest inhabitants of the Americas.

Set of 6 fossil hominid tools.

1.9 MYA. The Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813 was discovered by K. Kimeu in 1973 at Koobi Fora, Kenya, and described by R. Leakey in Nature in 1973.

1.5 to 2 MYA. The Australopithecus (Paranthropus) robustus Skull SK-48 was discovered by Fourie in Swartkrans, South Africa in 1950 and described by R. Broom in 1952.

1.7 MYA. Male. The Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM-ER 406 was discovered by R. Leakey at Koobi Fora, Kenya, in 1969.

Considered to have lived 2.5 MYA, the Australopithecus africanus Skull Sts 5 'Mrs. Ples' was discovered in 1947 by R. Broom and J. Robinson in Sterkfontein, Transvaal, South Africa.

50000 YA. The Homo neanderthalensis Skull was discovered by A. and J. Bouyssomie and J. Bonneval in 1908 in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France. It was the most complete Neanderthal skull found at the time.

1.8 MYA. The Homo habilis Skull OH 24 (KNM) was discovered by P. Nzube in 1968 and first described by M. Leakey, Clark, & L. Leakey in Nature in 1971.

The age of the skull was determined by reference to the natural bone specimen. All the deciduous (baby teeth) are present in the upper and lower jaws.