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D3444 is a hominin skull found in the Dmanisi site in Georgia. Skull 3 is made up of D3444 and D2600 (mandible). This individual is notable in that it lost all but one tooth and could have only survived by eating food that did not require heavy chewing, such as soft plants and animal food, or by receiving help from other individuals [1][2][3].

Lucy is one of the most famous hominins ever found. She was discovered in Hadar, a palaeoanthropological site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia in 1974. This partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis is composed of several hundred pieces of fossiled bones representing 40 percent of the individual [1][2][3][4].

KNM-ER 813 is a well preserved talus of an unknown Homo [1]. It was found in Area 104 of Koobi Fora, at 4m below the A2 marker and is dated to  ~1.78 Ma [2][3].

KNM-ER 816 is an isolated left maxillary canine and some tooth fragments classified as that from a Paranthropus boisei [1][2]. These were found in Area 104 of Koobi Fora at 4m below the A2 marker in the KBS member and stratigraphically dated to ~1.78 Ma [3][4]. 

PMU M3550 is an isolated right upper molar (M3). It is the first-ever Homo erectus pekinensis specimen found. It was recovered by Zdansky in Zhoukoudian Locality 1 in 1921. This specimen, together with a second tooth recovered from Zdansky’s laboratory later on and two more teeth discovered at a later date from the Zhoukoudian collections are the earliest collected Homo erectus pekinensis samples from the Zhoukoudian deposits. All four teeth are currently housed in the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden. These four teeth are among the most treasured finds in palaeoanthropology, not only because of their scientific value but also for their historical and cultural significance [1][2][3][4][5].

Molodova I is a multistratified Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air site in Ukraine known for providing evidence of the possible earliest use of mammoth bones as a building material. This discovery provided significant data on the possible relationship between mammoths and early humans, as well as more information on Neanderthal subsistence strategies [1].

Callao Cave is a limestone cave located in the municipality of Peñablanca in the Philippines. The cave has been intermittently occupied since the Neolithic period up to the Late Pleistocene. It is known for the discovery of the Homo luzonensis a small-bodied hominin that lived on Luzon island from 50,000 to 67,000 years ago [1][2].