Discovered by Peter Nzube in 1968 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. It
consisted of a badly crushed skull and seven teeth. It is about 1.8
million years old and has a brain size of about 590 cc.
This is the most complete of the Homo habilis skulls discovered
at Olduvai Gorge. (It is not as complete as it may look above; the
lighter portion of the side of the head is filler.) When discovered, it
had been crushed absolutely flat, hence the nickname "Twiggy", after an
English model of the 1960's. A heroic reconstruction job by R.J. Clarke
restored it, but some distortion undoubtedly remains.
