- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1935
- ID By:
- 142 - M. D. Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 106 - Natural History Museum UK (?)
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- Two cranial vault fragments. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. Not found at House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
OH 2
- CODI ID:
- 3718
- Arch. Locality:
- 27 - MNK
- Geo. Locality:
- 279 - 88
- Elements Preserved:
- CRA-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Homininae
- Tribe:
- Hominini
- Genus:
- Homo
- Species:
- erectus
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Similar to OH 9 and OH 12.
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- III/IV
- Level:
- Lowest horizon of Bed IVa.
- In Situ:
- No
- Stratigraphic Horizon:
- Surface. Found at head of MNK Gully where Beds II and IV are exposed.