Abomsa, Ethiopia
Middle Awash
The Middle Awash is a paleoanthropological research area in the northwest corner of Gabi Rasu in the Afar Region along the Awash River in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. It is a unique natural laboratory for the study of human origins and evolution and a number of fossils of the earliest hominins, particularly of the Australopithecines, as well as some of the oldest known Olduwan stone artifacts, have been found at the site—all of late Miocene, the Pliocene, and the very early Pleistocene times, that is, about 5.6 million years ago to 2.5 mya. It is broadly thought that the divergence of the lines of the earliest humans and of chimpanzees was completed near the beginning of that time range, or…
- City
- Abomsa
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
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