Lumbar vertebra fossils discovered in the Cradle of Humankind have thrown new light on Australopithecus sediba
of the skeletons.
But all the while new fossils were being discovered and in 2016 the new lumbar vertebrae were prepared. This allowed us to study Issa’s nearly complete lower back.We were able to say a lot more about Issa’s lower back and adaptations to bipedalism than we could before. In 2013 we only had the two lowest lumbar vertebrae. From these we found the bony wedging to indicate that Issa potentially had a highly lordotic — curved forward — lower back.
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