 On the day after finding the fossil Johanson was beginning to doubt his certainty, and there was an urgent need for confirmation as their agreement with the Ethiopian government required his team to describe the finds at a press conference before it left.He did not want to botch his first important fossil interpretation, but he would not be allowed to take the fossil away for study unless he gave a description.That second evening he remembered a nearby ruin of an Afar burial mound.