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When and where was Lucy found?

Archeologists discover three
medieval towns





"..The remains of mosques, residential areas and
city walls, and buildings with walls several meters
high stud the sites of the medieval towns of
Asbari, Masal and Nora....More
1.2 million years old Homo Erectus pelvis found in Ethiopia
" The fossilized pelvis of a Homo erectus woman who lived 1.2 million
years ago on the banks of an Ethiopian river has been discovered..More
Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?
(National Geographic) - Modern humans may have evolved more
than 80,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a
new study of sophisticated stone tools found in Ethiopia. More
Out of Africa, not once but twice
"Modern humans are thought to have left Africa in
a wave of migration around 50,000 years ago.
But another smaller group, possibly a different
subspecies, left the continent 50,000 years
earlier,..More
Ancient caves
discovered in Keffa






"Nine ancient caves were
recently discovered in Telo
Woreda, Keffa Zone of the
South Ethiopia Peoples'
State, the Woreda
information . .
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The discovery of "Little Lucy"
by Nature Magazine:
Streaming video: Hominid evolution and
development
Fossils belong to new great ape
22 August 2007 ( BBC ) - Nine fossilised
teeth found in Ethiopia are from a
previously unknown species of great
ape, Nature journal reports.
The 10 million-year-old fossils belong to
an animal that has been named.....More
Ethiopia sends 'Lucy'
to the US





Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
hopes to attract more
tourists by sending "Lucy," a
celebrated 3,2
million-year-old female
hominid skeleton, to....
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    Oldest Pre-Human Revealed
    1 October, 2009 (David Perlman) - "Ardi's full
    name, Ardipithecus ramidus uses traditional
    Greek suffixes but precedes them with words in
    the local Afar language: Ardi means "ground"
    and ramid means "root," so together her name
    literally means "root of the ground ape."
    The scientists describing their discoveries...More
Ethiopia, Destination For The Bold
    10 Dec. 2009 (Peter Heinlein) -
    "Discoveries are a regular occurence
    here. A few kilometers outside Harar, a
    guide leads visitors up a mountainside to
    a cave chiseled by the Harla people who
    lived here for centuries. He splashes
    water on the outside wall, and it seems
    to come..More
A Fossil Hunt in Ethiopia’s Mush Valley
    29 December, 2010 (New York Times (blog) -
    Bonnie F. Jacobs ) - Why is it important to
    know about the Ethiopian Plateau 22 million
    years ago? The Mush Valley preserves plants
    and animals from a time soon after a land
    connection was established between Afro
-Arabia and Eurasia — a land connection that marked the end of
Africa’s island status and that was used by animals to...More
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Lucy’s Kin Carved Up a Meaty Meal, Scientists Say
11 Aug. 2010 (JOHN NOBLE WILFORD) - As early as 3.4 million
years ago, some individuals with a taste for meat and marrow —
presumably members of the species best known for the skeleton
called Lucy — apparently butchered with sharp and heavy stones
two large animals on the shore of a shallow lake in what is....More
Humans originated alongside rivers, evidence
suggests
21 December, 2011 (msnbc.com ) - To learn more about what
the area was like back then, scientists investigated sediments from
the site where Ardi was excavated. They noticed layers of
sandstone that were likely created by ancient streams regularly
depositing sand over time. These rivers may have...More