Olduvai Hominid 9

Chellean man

OH 9 replica
Catalog number OH 9
Common name Chellean man
Species Homo erectus
Age 1.4 mya
Place discovered Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Date discovered 1960
Discovered by A team led by Louis S. B. Leakey

Olduvai Hominid number 9 (OH 9) is a fossilized skull cap of an early hominin, found in Olduvai Gorge by Louis Leakey in 1960. It is believed to be around 1.4 to 1.5 myo.

It is the first hominin that has a brain size larger than 1000 cc.


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