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Apr 4, 2024 · They’ve found that when the earliest A. afarensis lived at Hadar about 3.7 million years ago, the site included woods along the shore of an ancient river, where animals waded into floodwaters and an entire family of A. afarensis died together.
Aug 20, 2024 · Olduvai Gorge was home to some of the earliest hominids. Image credit: melissamn/Shutterstock.com. The story of our species begins in Africa, although our ability to tell that story is based on...
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The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. [ 1 ][ 2 ] While the name ...
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,...
Oct 4, 2023 · The research included fieldwork in Jordan’s rift valley which uncovered hand tools, known as flakes, on the edge of wadis – now-dry river channels which at the time were full of water.
Oct 4, 2023 · The first two were Wadi Gharandal and an area near the village of Gregra – both in the valley itself. The third site, Wadi Hasa , is located in the more elevated areas of the Jordan plateau.
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Jan 30, 2023 · One of them, a man in his 20s, began his journey around 230,000 years ago after collapsing into marshland on the lush edge of a river delta feeding a vast lake in East Africa’s Rift Valley. He became the earth in which he lay as nutrients leached from his body and his bone mineralised into fossil.
