The Ushikawa fossils were originally presented as a humerus bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who was alive more than 20,000 years ago.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

anamensis' jaws are more primitive than those of later hominids. And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A.

There is one radius (R1) and one ulna (U1); these are the two bones that connect the wrist and elbow. There are two humerus bones (H1 and H2). The humerus connects the shoulder and the elbow.

“From these observations and taking into account the individual variation in bear bone morphology, we were able to determine that the Ushikawa 'human humerus' fossil is a fragment of the shaft of a ...

He describes them as in the same mineralised condition as the bones of the mammoth ... mammals with which they were associated. A human humerus, in the same state of preservation, was found ...