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Fossil mammals and artefacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia

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A review of fossil mammalian faunas from the Middle Awash indicates they span most of the later Neogene and document evolutionary change in several mammalian groups, especially Primates, Proboscidea and Artiodactyla. Oldowan artefacts first appear in the late Pliocene, while Acheulian and later industries and apparent occupation sites occur in Pleistocene beds.

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  1. Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Balcones Centre, The University of Texas, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas, 78758, USA

    Jon E. Kalb

  2. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, 10003, USA

    C. J. Jolly & Tsrha Adefris

  3. Department of Systematics & Ecology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66044, USA

    Assefa Mebrate

  4. Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 78712

    Sleshi Tebedge

  5. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, USA

    Charles Smart

  6. Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87107, USA

    E. B. Oswald

  7. Department of Cell Biology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, 10003, USA

    Douglas Cramer

  8. Osborn Memorial Laboratory, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06511, USA

    Paul Whitehead

  9. Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, 02918, USA

    C. B. Wood

  10. Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    G. C. Conroy

  11. Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2K6

    Louise Sperling

  12. Department of Biology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Berhane Kana

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Kalb, J., Jolly, C., Mebrate, A. et al. Fossil mammals and artefacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298, 25–29 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/298025a0

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