Image Gallery

The rock containing the skeleton.

The small tooth (in the centre) that was spotted and led to the discovery of the skeleton in the rock.

Justin Mukanku from the Wits Institute of Human Evolution spotted the tooth.

Justin Mukanku from the Wits Institute of Human Evolution spotted the tooth. On the other side are antelope fossils.

Prof. Lee Berger and Wilma Lawrence with the rock containing the skeleton.

Prof. Lee Berger and Wilma Lawrence with the rock containing the skeleton.

The rock containing the skeleton inside also contains antelope fossils visible on the outside.

Some of the things in block 051 - two molars in a mandible.

Some of the things in block 051 (2) Teeth are circled, arrows point to various hominin bones embedded in the rock.

Block 051 - circled bone. This is how bones are visualized on a CT scan.

Composite probable hominin femur. Image from block 051.

A probable hominin fibula (circled), in block 051. Note the shaft of a probable femur just above and to the left.