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News Release 12-059
Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone
Discovery of partial foot skeleton could mean hominin species lived side by side
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The Burtele partial foot (BRT-VP-2/73). A laboratory photo after cleaning and preparation. It is shown here in its anatomically articulated form.
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Lead author Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, in the field investigating a fossil fragment.
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The sifted dirt is carefully picked using small picking pans and each bone fragment is picked and checked for possible fragments of the partial foot.
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The fourth metatarsal of the Burtele partial foot right after discovery in researcher Stephanie Melillo's hand.
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Panoramic view of northwestern part of the Woranso-Mille study area.
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