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SEDIMENTARY deposits in the Middle Awash research area of Ethiopia's Afar depression have yielded vertebrate fossils including the most ancient hominids known. Radioisotopic dating, geochem-ical analysis of interbedded volcanic ashes and biochronological considerations place the hominid-bearing deposits at around 4.4 million years of age. Sedimentological, botanical and faunal evidence suggests a wooded habitat for the Aramis hominids.
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WoldeGabriel, G., White, T., Suwa, G. et al. Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia. Nature 371, 330–333 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/371330a0
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