- Excavation/Discovery Date:
- 1960
- ID By:
- 130 - L.S.B. Leakey
- ID Date:
- Research Team:
- 264 - Leakey family expedition
- Repository:
- 122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Bibilographic Information:
- Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Curatorial Notes:
- The molar-f was found on the surface and "probably also belongs to OH 8" (Leakey MD, 1971:228). Twelve associated foot bones including astragalus (has carnivore tooth marks (Leakey MD, 1971), calcaneus, cuboid and navicular, cuneiforms 1- 3, proximal ends with shafts, five metatarsals. Proximal ends of one metacarpal and three finger phalanges. One radius shaft. Clavicle with damaged articular ends. Foot articulates "almost perfectly with the OH 35 leg" (Susman, 1983:372).
OH 8
- CODI ID:
- 3723
- Arch. Locality:
- 6 - FLK NN
- Geo. Locality:
- 283 - 45
- Elements Preserved:
- PHX , CAR , TAR , CLA , AST , CAL , CUNE , CUB , NAV , M-f
- Sediment/Matrix Adhering:
Taxonomy
- Class:
- Mammalia
- Order:
- Primates
- Suborder:
- Anthropoidea
- Infraorder:
- Haplorhini
- Superfamily:
- Hominoidea
- Family:
- Hominidae
- Subfamily:
- Homininae
- Tribe:
- Hominini
- Genus:
- Homo
- Species:
- habilis
- Subspecies:
- Taxonomic Notes:
- Paratype
- Taxonomic Problems:
- Bed:
- I
- Level:
- 3
- In Situ:
- Yes
- Stratigraphic Horizon: