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Lower Valley of the Awash: Afar: 1980 10; ii, iii, iv (cultural) The area of the lower Awash River is one of the most important archaeological sites in the study of human evolution. It was occupied by early hominids for millions of years and well preserved fossils have been discovered here.
The Awash River, forded by camel caravan, a nineteenth century engraving (in 1852) The valley of the Awash from about 9° N downstream is the traditional home of the Afar people and Issa people. [24] The valley of the Awash have been included as part of the Fatagar, Ifat, and Shewa. [25] The Awash International Bank is named after the Awash ...
Melka Kunture (Amharic: መልካ ቁንጥሬ) is a Paleolithic site in the upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia. It is located 50 kilometers south of Addis Ababa by road, across the Awash River from the village of Melka Awash. Three waterfalls lie downstream of the bridge across the Awash here, which provides access south to Butajira. [1]
Awash National Park is a national park in Ethiopia. Located at the border of Oromia state and Afar state, the park covers an area of 827 square kilometers, most of it lies at an altitude of 900 meters.
The Middle Awash Project takes place in a semi arid, rather remote part of the Afar rift. Between 5.8 and 4.4 Ma, the region was grassland and wetland. [1] Today, the rift is a basin divided by fault lines and filled with volcanoes. [2] Also called the Afar Depression, it has long been inhabited by the nomadic Afar people of Ethiopia.
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The Middle Awash is a paleoanthropological research area [1] in the northwest corner of Gabi Rasu in the Afar Region along the Awash River in Ethiopia's Afar Depression.It is a unique natural laboratory for the study of human origins and evolution and a number of fossils of the earliest hominins, particularly of the Australopithecines, as well as some of the oldest known Olduwan stone ...