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News Release 05-008

Really Old Bones of Early Humans Unearthed in Ethiopia

Researcher uncovers four-million-year-old ancestral fossils

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The Gona site

Excavation of a hominid site at Gona, Afar region, Ethiopia

Credit: Sileshi Semaw, Indiana University


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