Middle Awash

Coordinates: 10°17′N 40°30′E / 10.283°N 40.500°E / 10.283; 40.500
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Middle Awash
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Reconstruction of the skull of Australopithecus garhi, discovered at the site.
LocationEthiopia
Part ofLower Valley of the Awash
CriteriaCultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)
Reference10
Inscription1980 (4th Session)
Coordinates11°6′0.216″N 40°34′45.804″E / 11.10006000°N 40.57939000°E / 11.10006000; 40.57939000
Middle Awash is located in Ethiopia
Middle Awash
Location of Middle Awash in Ethiopia

The Middle Awash is a

CHLCA: human-chimpanzee split.[5][6]

A recent find of

Homo sapiens idaltu (at 160 ka ago) are found in the middle and late Pleistocene. And patches of fire-baked clay, disputed as evidences of the controlled use of fire, are also found in that later period.[7]

deposited in lakes or rivers, and carbonates found there contain low carbon isotope ratios. This information suggests that the environment of the Middle Awash was wet during the late Miocene, and that this currently arid region was occupied then by woodland or grassy woodland habitats. Fossil remains of other vertebrates found with the hominins, including the cane rat, further suggest such an environment.[5] The region was the site of periodic volcanism, which probably created distinct ecological regions inhabited by different species of vertebrate animals.[8]

Important hominin fossils found in the Middle Awash include:[8][9]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Middle Awash project home". middleawash.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  2. ^ "Middle Awash". About.com. Archived from the original on 2005-10-01. Retrieved 2006-04-12.
  3. ISBN 0-306-46158-7
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  4. PMID 10213682
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  6. ISBN 978-0-520-25120-5
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  7. ISBN 1-57718-112-3
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  8. ^ a b "Bimodal volcanism and rift basin development in the Middle Awash region, Ethiopia". Archived from the original on 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2006-04-12.
  9. ^ Borenstein, Seth. "New Fossil Links Up Human Evolution". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2006-04-13. [dead link]

References

10°17′N 40°30′E / 10.283°N 40.500°E / 10.283; 40.500

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