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12749_archeologists
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1970s
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Archaeologists use wooden and mesh sifter to sift through dirt at a dig site, a native man uses a pick ax while archaeologists sift through dirt in the background. An archaeologist picks at a fossil//bone on a table with a small hammer and brush (archaeology tools), narrator states that this find has become known as “The First Family” - a set of skeletal bones of men, women, and children found fossilized together.Three shirtless men huddle over a table looking at dental bones (molar), one man smokes a pipe. Archaeologists working on hill, woman takes notes , man sits on steep rock and writes notes on a pad of paper.Panning shot of various fossilized human bones labeled and kept in glass cases, narrator states that these are from the early hominid australopithecus afarensis.