Nature 261, 571 - 572 (17 June 1976); doi:10.1038/261571a0

Prehistoric exploration at Hadar, Ethiopia

G. CORVINUS^*

Institut für Urgeschichte Universität, Schloss, 74 Tübingen, FRG
^*Present address: Consolidated Diamond, Geology Department, Box 253, Oranjemund 9015, South West Africa.

DURING the third International Afar Research Expedition, which led to the exciting find of the australopithecine skeleton known as "Lucy"¹, parallel investigations revealed the existence of two Early Stone Age (ESA) industries in the Hadar area. One comprises an Acheulian workshop (the Denen Dora Koma Acheulian), and the other, stratigraphically younger, constitutes a degenerate biface-flake industry.

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