[count-your-change]

It is what it is and if you don't know the background of this endlessly reworked committee of bones you'll not understand what I mean.

[BroJoeK]

count-your-change: "It is what it is and if you don't know the background of this endlessly reworked committee of bones you'll not understand what I mean."

According to this source:

"In 1992–1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils—seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones—from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

"More fragments were recovered in 1994, amounting to 45% of the total skeleton.
This fossil was originally described as a species of Australopithecus, but White and his colleagues later published a note in the same journal renaming the fossil under a new genus, Ardipithecus.

"Between 1999 and 2003, a multidisciplinary team led by Sileshi Semaw discovered bones and teeth of nine A. ramidus individuals at As Duma in the Gona Western Margin of Ethiopia's Afar Region.[6]
The fossils were dated to between 4.35 and 4.45 million years old."

This sounds like at least three different discoveries in two separate locations.

Map of the fossil sites of the earliest hominids (35.8-3.3M BP):