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Aug 20, 2024 · To underline this point, the researchers examined the ranges occupied by modern mammals within the Rift Valley, finding that for medium and large-bodied animals, the EARS typically made up just...
- Benjamin Taub
Apr 4, 2024 · The day after he found Lucy in November 1974, Don Johanson studies the exact spot where he picked up the first bone, her elbow. In camp, Johanson (left in second image) and Maurice Taieb scrutinize and photograph the spectacular find.
The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new and separate plates.
Jun 4, 1994 · Almost all the fossil remains of the ancestors of modern humans come from sites in and around the eastern arm of the East African Rift Valley and from southern Africa. The evidence is limited,...
Jan 30, 2023 · Some 200,000 years ago, the Rift is inhabited by the earliest creature that is undoubtedly us: the first Homo sapiens, like our ancestor found in Ethiopia. Scrubbed and dressed, he would not turn heads on the streets of modern-day Nairobi, London or New York.
- Tristan Mcconnell
Feb 29, 2016 · The rift flank exposes a stack of three distinctive rock units that are easily visible as you explore the King’s Highway from the capital of Amman to the coastal city of Aqaba. Jordan’s rocky foundation consists of Late Precambrian granitic and metamorphic rocks.
Oct 4, 2023 · Our findings from the Jordan Rift Valley indicate there were multiple early human migrations from Africa, and into Asia, during favourable conditions.
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