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Palaeoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia

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A survey of Ethiopia's Middle Awash Valley in 1981 yielded new and significant archaeological, palaeontological, geological and geochronological results. Included in the new discoveries are hominid fossils from the Pliocene which show primitive cranial anatomy and a femur adapted to bipedality. Archaeological records document human technological change spanning the past 1.5 Myr.

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Clark, J., Asfaw, B., Assefa, G. et al. Palaeoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 307, 423–428 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/307423a0

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