An Archaeological Anthropological Study of Specimen LD 350-1 and its Evolutionary Relationship to Australopithecus and Homo-Habilis

Abstract

This research deals with specimen LD 350-1 and its evolutionary relationship with Australopithecus and Homo-Habilis. It is considered an urgent necessity to understand the first appearance of man from both archaeological and anthropological standpoints. The research follows the descriptive approach in an analytical manner, and the archaeological and anthropological studies that were carried out on specimens belonging to Australopithecus and Homo-Habilis, as well as specimen LD 350, are considered 1 The primary source of information in this research, which concluded that the sample LD 350-1 represents the oldest witness to the appearance of man from the archaeological and anthropological point of view, and that the stone tools associated with this sample represent the oldest tools made by man, and they belong to the Oldowan culture, the oldest culture in science, and that this specimen possesses physiological characteristics that make it an independent specimen that precedes Homo-Habilis, does not provide conclusive evidence of the existence of a close evolutionary link between Australopithecus and humans, nor even between it and Homo-Habilis. Rather, it appears physiologically closer to Homo erectus.