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___ During the initial field season in 1973 the
first early hominid fossils were recovered from
Hadar, a knee joint and a partial temporal.
Nearly 6,000 fossils of mammals, a total of 87
species, were recovered in 1973 and in
subsequent seasons. In the fall of 1974 a larger
team returned to continue the search and soon
made a discovery of hominid teeth.
At the end of November D.C. Johanson
discovered at locality 288 the partial skeleton of
a tiny female hominid, which was nicknamed
"Lucy." The 1975 field season brought even
more hominid remains, this time at Locality 333.
This locality has been interpreted as evidence
for the catastrophic death of a group of
hominids. The 333 site yielded, by the close of
excavacions during che 1976-1977 field
season, hundreds of hominid fossil fragments
derived from at least 13 individuals representing
all ages. All of the Hadar fossils were returned
after study to the National Museum of Ethiopia
in Addis Ababa, where they are permanently