1.   Anthropologists were worried that the new tempest might provoke another ban on explorations in these regions abounding in hominid fossils and artifacts.

2.   Because the oldest known hominid fossils were found in eastern and southern Africa it had been widely assumed that this region is the cradle of humanity.

3.   A New York Times News Service article about an early hominid fossil found in Ethiopia misstated the date that modern Homo sapiens are thought to have arisen.

4.   But the proximity of the cutmarked antelope bones to the hominid fossils is strong circumstantial evidence that these were the toolmakers and hearty meat eaters.

5.   It is in the Great Rift Valley to the southwest of Lake Turkana, a fertile area for hominid fossils.

6.   Thirty-five years ago, when Kimeu first began to look for hominid fossils, his mother accused him of being a gravedigger.

7.   Three years later, Clark chanced to be looking in another cupboard for some hominid fossils when he spied a box labeled monkey bones.

8.   Hominid fossils in Africa are older than those found anywhere else, and the theory is that early man migrated to the rest of the world from the continent.

9.   It was a void in hominid fossils that long has puzzled experts and confounded theories of human evolution and migration.

10.   The previously oldest hominid fossils found in South Africa have been of the apemen of Makapansgat in Northern province, which were estimated at three million years old.