14-year-long excavation reveals oldest Australopithecus in SA

The 14-year-long excavation of Little Foot, a skeleton from the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa, has been described as one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries made. It reveals that she was the oldest skeleton in South Africa, details what happened to her after death, and says how she was preserved.
"It is the only complete, or virtually complete, Australopithecus skeleton from anywhere and furthermore, it is the oldest Australopithecus in South Africa. So, it is going to tell us a lot about our early ancestry," Professor Ron Clarke of the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute said.
The fossil, which is believed to be 3.67 million years old, was described for the first time by Clarke and his assistants, Stephen Motsumi and Nkwane Molefe.
Clarke identified 12 foot and lower leg bones of one Australopithecus individual which were misidentified as animal fossils, in boxes stored at Sterkfontein and at the University of Witwatersrand in 1994 and 1997.
Source: News24