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The new hominid skull held by Gona project member Asahmed Humet, who discovered the fossil on February 16, 2006
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March 24, 2006: News Release

New Hominid Cranium
from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Release Prepared by the Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project

Stone Age Institute and CRAFT Research Center at Indiana University, March 21, 2006

TO BE RELEASED ON MARCH 24, 2006 AT 2:30 P.M. EASTERN TIME (U.S.)

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Previous News Release on the Gona Project

January 19, 2005

New Pliocene hominids
from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Background Information for the Press Release

Publication: Nature 3177 (PDF)

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