**Especie:** *Australopithecus africanus* Dart, 1925
**Número de Registro:* MGUV 22813
**Capacidad craneal:**  480-520 cc.
**Edad:** 3´3-2´1 M.a Piacenziense-Gelasiense (Plioceno Superior-Pleistoceno Inferior)
**Localidad:** (Sudáfrica, 1947)
**Clasificación: Familia: Hominidae Género: Australophitecus
**Material:** recreación cráneo en material cerámico, **dimensiones:** 20 x 15 x 15´5 cm.
**Técnica:** fotogrametría **Cámara:** Sony DSC HX60V 
**Autor:** Jose A. Villena
**Colección:**  "Evolución Humana"  MUVHN
**Referencia bibliográfica:** Climent, A. V., Herraiz, J. L., Villena, J. A., Máñez, T. S., Boisset-Castells, E., Conejero, N., García-Forner, A. & Pérez, C. M. (2019). La holografía como herramienta para la divulgación del patrimonio paleontológico: La colección de paleontología humana del museu de la universitat de valència de historia natural. Zubía, (31), 275-280. 
Vídeo holográfico: https://youtu.be/p82Ln44W7QU

![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51911819863_9661bcd0ab_z.jpg)

Australopithecus africanus skull (recreation)

Photo-model of Australopithecus africanus replica skull, undertaken as part of a student project. (Department of Archaeology, UCC, techning collection). Note: Some discolouration around the bottom of the jaw owing to merging two point clouds. This model is not currently scaled.

Australopithecus africanus

**Especie:** Australopithecus afarensis Johanson, White & Coppens, 1978
**Nombre común:** Lucy
**Edad biológica:** 20 años
**Capacidad craneal:**  380-450 cc.
**Edad:**3´2 M.a (Piacenziense, Plioceno Superior) 
**Localidad / año descubrimiento:** Hadar (Etiopía), 1974
**Clasificación:** família Hominidae, género *Australophitecus*
**Material** cráneo de resina del ejemplar Al 288-1
**medidas:**  15 x 12 x 9 cm.
**Técnica:** ** fotogrametría, 
**Cámara:** Sony DSC HX60V 
**Autor:** Jose A. Villena
**Nº registro / Colección:**MGUV 22816 / "Evolución Humana"  MUVHN

**Referencia bibliográfica:** Climent, A. V., Herraiz, J. L., Villena, J. A., Máñez, Boisset, E., Conejero, N., García-Forner, A. & Pérez, C. M. (2019). La holografía como herramienta para la divulgación del patrimonio paleontológico: La colección de paleontología humana del museu de la universitat de valència de historia natural. Zubía, (31), 275-280.

![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51911819878_c84047e203_z.jpg)

Australopithecus afarensis skull (cast)

***Australopithecus africanus*** 
  
Location: Makapansgat, South Africa. 
  
Age: about 3.0 million years ago. 
  
Material: epoxy resin cast. 

Dimensions: length, 68 mm; width, 82 mm; height, 34 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp40 (cast).  Mandible.  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Steve Davis.

Australopithecus africanus (2501.1rp40)

Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus, also known as "Australopithecus aethiopicus", -2.5 millions years, southern Ethiopia. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from AutoDesk.

Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus was discovered in southern Ethiopia by French archeologists Camille Arambourg and Yves Coppens in 1967. Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus has notable features that differ from the other robust australopithecines, including a larger zygomatic arch, extended ramus of the mandible, and a more prognathic face. These differences may have been developed during the evolution of aethiopicus, but it may also suggest that P. aethiopicus has a different phylogenetic history than A. robustus and A. boisei.

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Paranthropus Aethiopicus

Australopithecus Sediba Malapa Hominin 1 (MH1) Karabo

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Malapa Hominin 1 (MH1) Karabo

StW 573, famously known as "Little Foot," is a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus prometheus skul.

Generated 3D Model from:
**Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 (“Little Foot”)**
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/comptes-rendus-palevol2026v25a3-pdfa.pdf

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Little Foot Skull Reconstructed

As a request someone asked for me to make a Comparison of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) and Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus) Pelvis. I managed to generate The Ardipithecus Girdle, but I also included a Chimpanzee Pelvic Girdle

**Lovejoy, C. O., Suwa, G. et al. (2009) The pelvis and femur of Ardipithecus ramidus: the emergence of upright walking. Science 326: 71e1-e6.**

![](https://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/UMUTopenlab/en/assets/img/library/B47_01.jpg)

![](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Evie-Vereecke/publication/280721011/figure/fig4/AS:669334758244353@1536593250076/The-Ardipithecus-pelvis-at-44-mya-was-already-more-human-than-chimpanzee-like-Three.ppm)

Lucy and  Ardi(Ardipithecus), Chimpanzee Pelvis

1:1 scale, Female Australopithecus afarensis(Lucy), Homo Ergaster(Turkana Boy) and Neanderthalensis(Sawyer & Maley reconstruction) Pelvises Comparison

Afarensis, Ergaster, Neanderthal Pelvises

Managed a Higher quality model

StW 573, famously known as “Little Foot,” is a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus prometheus skul.

Generated 3D Model from: Virtual reconstruction and comparative study of the face of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/comptes-rendus-palevol2026v25a3-pdfa.pdf

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Little Foot Reconstruction2

Species: *Australopithecus afarensis*
Note: adult skull reconstructed by Tim White
Scanned and edited by Linda Piccini (Laboratorio di Biologia Sperimentale, Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Pisa) 
Scanner: ARTEC SPIDER

A. afarensis - Skull

1:1 cast of the Peninj (Natron) mandible, attributed to *Paranthropus/Australopithecus boisei*. It was discovered near Lake Natron, Tanzania, and dates to approximately 1.5 million years ago. The mandible exhibits the robust anatomical features characteristic of this taxon, including a deep mandibular corpus, enlarged molars and premolars, and reduced anterior teeth.

This mandible is often displayed together with the famous OH 5 cranium (“Nutcracker Man”), and is used to reconstruct the characteristic appearance of this robust species.

Peninj mandible

Australopithecus africanus Cranium Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples" with Reconstructed Jaw compared with Dmanisi 5

Australopithecus Africanus, Dmanisi5 Comparison

Species: Australopithecus africanus 
Discovery: 1924, Taung, Republic of South Africa 
Age: About 2.8 million years old 
Scanned and edited by Linda Piccini (Laboratorio di Biologia Sperimentale, Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Pisa) 
Scanner: ARTEC SPIDER

Taung Child - Skull

Species: *Australopithecus africanus *
Discovery: 1924, Taung, Republic of South Africa
Age: About 2.8 million years old 
Scanned and edited by Linda Piccini (Laboratorio di Biologia Sperimentale, Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Pisa) 
Scanner: ARTEC SPIDER

Taung Child - Mandible

Species: *Australopithecus africanus*
Discovery: 1924, Taung, Republic of South Africa
Age: About 2.8 million years old
Scanned and edited by Linda Piccini (Laboratorio di Biologia Sperimentale, Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Pisa) 
Scanner: ARTEC SPIDER

Taung Child - Endocast

Species: *Australopithecus afarensis*
Note: adult mandible reconstructed by Tim White
Scanned and edited by Linda Piccini (Laboratorio di Biologia Sperimentale, Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Pisa) 
Scanner: ARTEC SPIDER

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