Kabwe
Kabwe: A famous fossil unearthed amid the human costs of mining
Mining led to the skull's discovery, destroyed its context, and left a century-long legacy of lead poisoning.
![The Kabwe skull viewed from the left side](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/06/kabwe-lateral-banner-crop.jpg)
Did giant humans walk the Middle Pleistocene earth?
A National Geographic documentary program prompts questions about some fossils from South Africa with large body size estimates.